adw.adw_261
Are US building permits (leading housing) accelerating?
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What adw.adw_261 does on AlpineDataWorks Intelligence Server
AI agents call adw.adw_261 to retrieve information from AlpineDataWorks Intelligence Server without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
days | integer | — | Optional: return a daily HISTORY series of the last N days (up to 5 years of real archived data) instead of the current snapshot. History requires Gold tier; wi |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why adw.adw_261 is rated Low
This tool appears to retrieve or analyze publicly available US building permit statistics to determine acceleration trends in housing permits. This is a read-only query operation with no side effects, data modification, or external system impact. The low severity reflects that misuse would only surface misleading economic intelligence without operational consequences.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'adw_261' with description 'Are US building permits (leading housing) accelerating?' indicates a query about historical/current building permit data to assess trends.
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The rule that runs adw.adw_261 safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and AlpineDataWorks Intelligence Server, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For adw.adw_261, this is the rule to start with:
adw.adw_261 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 AlpineDataWorks Intelligence Server, apply this rule, and every adw.adw_261 call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about adw.adw_261
Are US building permits (leading housing) accelerating?. It is categorised as a Read tool in the AlpineDataWorks Intelligence Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
adw.adw_261 accepts 1 parameter: days. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the AlpineDataWorks Intelligence Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for adw.adw_261: 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 AlpineDataWorks Intelligence Server. Nothing to install.
adw.adw_261 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 adw.adw_261 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 adw.adw_261. 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.
adw.adw_261 is provided by the AlpineDataWorks Intelligence Server MCP server (https://api.alpinedataworks.com/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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