list_cards

What list_cards does on Metabase Analytics Integration Server

AI agents call list_cards to retrieve information from Metabase Analytics Integration Server without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why list_cards is rated Low

The tool performs a read-only operation that retrieves a list of existing questions/cards from Metabase. There are no destructive, write, execute, or financial implications. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an AI agent listing cards cannot cause harm beyond potentially accessing information visibility. This is a standard Read category tool.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_cards' and description 'List all questions/cards in Metabase' indicate a retrieval/query operation with no side effects. This is a listing operation that retrieves existing data without modifying, executing, or deleting anything.

The rule that runs list_cards safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Metabase Analytics Integration Server, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For list_cards, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "list_cards": {}
  }
}

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