What is create-timeout-rule?

A command for creating a Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) rule that controls when users must sign in again or are disconnected after being idle.

It helps create and verify re-authentication and idle-timeout rules for selected applications or groups.

It avoids manually building timeout policies and converting seconds into understandable session limits.

create-timeout-rule — Command for Claude Code by zscaler

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zscaler/zscaler-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install zscaler, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 20 commands, 1 MCP server.

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README.md

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Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 315 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00021	$0.00315
Opus 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00126
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00004	$0.00063
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00032

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f6c41ccfc910, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-timeout-rule scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/create-timeout-rule.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Create ZPA Timeout Policy Rule

Create timeout rule: $ARGUMENTS

Step 1: Parse Input

Extract:

Rule name
Re-authentication timeout in seconds (e.g., 86400 = 24 hours)
Idle timeout in seconds (optional, e.g., 1800 = 30 minutes)
Application or group scope (optional)

Step 2: Look Up Application IDs (if scoped)

zpa_list_application_segments()
zpa_list_segment_groups()
```text

## Step 3: Build Conditions

If scoped to specific applications:

```json
[{"operands": [{"object_type": "APP", "values": ["<segment_id>"]}]}]
```text

## Step 4: Create the Rule

```text
zpa_create_timeout_policy_rule(
  name="<rule_name>",
  reauth_timeout=<seconds>,
  reauth_idle_timeout=<idle_seconds>,
  conditions=[...]
)
```text

## Step 5: Verify

```text
zpa_list_timeout_policy_rules()
```text

Present summary with rule details and human-readable timeout values (e.g., "24 hours re-auth, 30 minutes idle").

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 54 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A f6c41ccfc910

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create-timeout-rule is a command published in the GitHub repository zscaler/zscaler-mcp-server (55 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 315 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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