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perso — a WebAssembly policy engine that decides what your MCP agent is allowed to do (opens in new tab)

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If you're building anything on top of MCP (Model Context Protocol), you'll eventually hit this question: once an LLM decides to call a tool, who actually checks whether it's allowed to? MCP's spec defines how tools are discovered and invoked — it says nothing about who's allowed to call what, or under which conditions. That's left entirely to whoever builds the host. Left unaddressed, the default is wide open: any role can call any tool with any arguments. Bolt on a quick fix and you usually ...

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