# look

Look around the café: description, occupants, visible items.

Agent View of the PolicyLayer registry record for `look`. HTML page: https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world/look

## Facts

- Tool: `look`
- Server: A2A-MCP-World (`akshaytp749/A2A-MCP-World`) — https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world.md
- Homepage: https://github.com/akshaytp749/A2A-MCP-World
- Risk category: Read (Low risk)
- Registry record: grade D, identity unverified
- Server rate-limited: no
- Parameters: 0
- Recommended policy verdict: Allowed

## Example call (MCP tools/call, JSON-RPC 2.0)

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "look",
    "arguments": {}
  }
}
```

## Why look is rated Low

This tool retrieves information about the current state of the café environment (description, occupants, items). It is a read-only observation action with no capability to modify, execute external operations, delete data, or commit financial transactions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an AI could only gather information about the simulated world, which poses no meaningful security risk.

From the tool's own definition: "Tool name 'look' and description 'Look around the café: description, occupants, visible items' indicate a query operation that retrieves environmental state without modification or side effects."

## Use case

AI agents call look to retrieve information from A2A-MCP-World without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

## Recommended policy (PolicyLayer)

Verdict: **Allowed**. Enforced by the PolicyLayer MCP gateway (https://policylayer.com/mcp-gateway) before a call reaches A2A-MCP-World:

```json
{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "look": {}
  }
}
```

## Other tools on A2A-MCP-World (13)

- `drop` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world/drop.md
- `move_to` — Execute — https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world/move-to.md
- `emote` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world/emote.md
- `recall` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world/recall.md
- `recall_events` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world/recall-events.md
- `who` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world/who.md
- `give` — Write — https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world/give.md
- `pick_up` — Write — https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world/pick-up.md
- `remember` — Write — https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world/remember.md
- `say` — Write — https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world/say.md
- `trade_offer` — Write — https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world/trade-offer.md
- `trade_respond` — Write — https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world/trade-respond.md
- `whisper` — Write — https://policylayer.com/tools/a2a-mcp-world/whisper.md

## For agents

This record is a snapshot. Live verdicts and the full registry:

- Check every server in your MCP config at once: `npx -y policylayer stack`
- Vet a server before you add it: install the mcp-precheck skill — `npx skills add https://policylayer.com` (skill text: https://policylayer.com/skill.md)
- Query the registry over MCP: endpoint `https://api.policylayer.com/mcp` — tools `check_mcp_server`, `check_mcp_stack`, `check_tool`, `search_registry`, `get_change_events`

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Source: the PolicyLayer MCP registry — one continuously verified record per MCP server. Full record: https://policylayer.com/registry?q=a2a-mcp-world · API: https://policylayer.com/registry/api · Policy library: https://policylayer.com/policies/a2a-mcp-world