[Guide] Add guide for reducing MCP tool poisoning risk with the MCP access control policy

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This pull request updates the documentation navigation in en/mkdocs.yml to include a new guide focused on reducing MCP tool poisoning risk using the MCP Access Control Policy. The new guide is added to multiple relevant sections to improve discoverability.

Documentation navigation updates:

• Added "Reduce MCP Tool Poisoning Risk with the MCP Access Control Policy" to the AI and MCP guides section in three different places in en/mkdocs.yml to ensure users can easily find this new guide. [1] [2] [3]

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The pull request adds an MCP tool poisoning guide. It covers MCP Access Control behavior, AI Workspace configuration, gateway deployment, verification, troubleshooting, and navigation entries in three documentation sections.

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MCP Tool Poisoning Guide

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Policy concepts and architecture en/docs/guides/ai-and-mcp/block-mcp-tool-poisoning-with-the-mcp-access-control-policy.md	Explains MCP tool poisoning, policy limitations, prerequisites, and MCP Proxy capability filtering.
Workspace and gateway configuration en/docs/guides/ai-and-mcp/block-mcp-tool-poisoning-with-the-mcp-access-control-policy.md	Documents project and gateway creation, MCP Proxy setup, deny-mode policy attachment, deployment, and invoke URL retrieval.
Verification, troubleshooting, and navigation en/docs/guides/ai-and-mcp/block-mcp-tool-poisoning-with-the-mcp-access-control-policy.md, en/mkdocs.yml	Documents verification commands, denied-tool responses, pagination behavior, troubleshooting, sample execution, and three navigation entries for the guide.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: selectiveduplicate

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 084cd

Readers could copy commands that expose MCP sessions to gateway impersonation. The insecure TLS defaults should be corrected before merge; the misleading security summary should also be aligned.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description accurately mentions the navigation updates, but it is largely incomplete against the repository template. It omits the purpose, checklist, goals, approach, user stories, release note, …	Complete the pull request description using the repository template. Include the purpose, goals, implementation approach, user stories, release note, documentation impact, checklist status, testing details, security checks, samples, related…

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the addition of a guide about reducing MCP tool poisoning risk with the MCP Access Control Policy. It accurately summarizes the primary change.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The description accurately mentions the navigation updates, but it is largely incomplete against the repository template. It omits the purpose, checklist, goals, approach, user stories, release note, documentation, testing, security, samples, and other required sections.

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Complete the pull request description using the repository template. Include the purpose, goals, implementation approach, user stories, release note, documentation impact, checklist status, testing details, security checks, samples, related PRs, migrations, test environment, and learning notes. Describe the new guide content in addition to the navigation changes.

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- Line 22: Rewrite the long sentences in the MCP tool poisoning introduction and
the corresponding passages at the referenced locations so every sentence has
fewer than 26 words. Preserve the explanations of malicious tool metadata, LLM
and UI exposure, agent risk, and how the MCP Access Control policy with an MCP
Proxy reduces exposure.
- Line 118: Replace the bare console.bijira.dev link label in the sign-in
instructions with concise, descriptive text such as “WSO2 API Platform console,”
while preserving the destination URL and surrounding walkthrough text.
- Line 129: Update the embedded images in the documentation, including the image
at the referenced location and the additional image occurrences, to retain each
existing 1x asset as src and add a srcset entry pointing to a real 2x asset with
exactly double the 1x dimensions.
- Line 143: Update the gateway invocation and verification examples to permit
plain HTTP or curl’s insecure TLS option only for loopback/local testing. For
non-local MCP endpoints, require HTTPS with proper certificate trust
configuration and remove recommendations for plain HTTP or curl -k; apply this
consistently to the invoke URL and all verification commands.

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- Line 223: Remove the -k option from the default Verify and denied-tool curl
commands, including session-bearing requests using INVOKE_URL. Document using
the system trust store or --cacert <certificate-path> for self-signed gateway
certificates, and retain -k only in explicitly local-only testing examples.
- Around line 298-299: Update the two summary bullets in the MCP tool poisoning
guide to reflect client-dependent metadata flow: state that an MCP client can
pass the hidden tool description to the model, and qualify the risks as data
exfiltration and unintended use of other tools within the agent’s existing
permissions. Preserve the points about trusted servers and manual-review
scalability.

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