# adw.adw_261

Are US building permits (leading housing) accelerating?

Agent View of the PolicyLayer registry record for `adw.adw_261`. HTML page: https://policylayer.com/tools/com-alpinedataworks-adw-intelligence-server/adw.adw-261

## Facts

- Tool: `adw.adw_261`
- Server: AlpineDataWorks Intelligence Server (`https://api.alpinedataworks.com/mcp`) — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-alpinedataworks-adw-intelligence-server.md
- Homepage: https://github.com/https://api.alpinedataworks.com/mcp
- Risk category: Read (Low risk)
- Registry record: grade C, identity unverified
- Server auth posture: open
- Server CORS policy: *
- Server rate-limited: no
- Parameters: 1
- Recommended policy verdict: Allowed

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `days` | integer | no | 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.

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

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "adw.adw_261",
    "arguments": {}
  }
}
```

## 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 own 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."

## Use case

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.

## Recommended policy (PolicyLayer)

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

```json
{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "adw.adw_261": {}
  }
}
```

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