home_feed
Get posts from the user's Reddit home feed.
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What home_feed does on Reddit Skills
AI agents call home_feed to retrieve information from Reddit Skills without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why home_feed is rated Low
This tool retrieves existing data (Reddit posts) from a feed without side effects. It does not create, modify, delete, or execute operations. The action is purely informational and falls squarely into the Read category. The severity is low because misuse would only expose the user's feed data, not cause harm beyond privacy concerns inherent to browsing Reddit.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Get posts from the user's Reddit home feed' — this is a retrieval operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of external commands.
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The rule that runs home_feed safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Reddit Skills, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For home_feed, this is the rule to start with:
home_feed is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Reddit Skills, apply this rule, and every home_feed call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about home_feed
Get posts from the user's Reddit home feed. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Reddit Skills MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Reddit Skills MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for home_feed: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Reddit Skills. Nothing to install.
home_feed is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the home_feed rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for home_feed. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
home_feed is provided by the Reddit Skills MCP server (1146345502/reddit-skills). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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