adw.air_quality_risk

SERVERAlpineDataWorks Intelligence Server SOURCEhttps://api.alpinedataworks.com/mcp

Low RISK CLASS

Category Read

Parameters 11 required

Recommended Allowedsee the rule below

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This record as markdown: /tools/com-alpinedataworks-adw-intelligence-server/adw.air-quality-risk.md

WHAT IT DOES

What adw.air_quality_risk does on AlpineDataWorks Intelligence Server

AI agents call adw.air_quality_risk 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
`county`	string	Yes	5-digit county FIPS (e.g. '12011') or 'County Name, ST' (e.g. 'Broward County, FL').

Parameters from the server's own tool schema.

RISK

Why adw.air_quality_risk is rated Low

This tool queries and retrieves historical air quality index data from EPA datasets. It performs no side effects, creates no data, executes no code, and cannot delete or modify records. The parameters (county FIPS or name) are simple lookup keys.

From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Returns national percentile rank, band, median AQI, % unhealthy days, and p90 AQI' — purely retrieval of pre-computed EPA air quality summaries with no modification, deletion, or execution capability.

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RECOMMENDED RULE

The rule that runs adw.air_quality_risk 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.air_quality_risk, this is the rule to start with:

adw.air_quality_risk Allowed

adw.air_quality_risk is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.

View as policy code

policy.json

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "adw.air_quality_risk": {}
  }
}

ALLOW ONLY THIS TOOL → Instant setup, no code required.

The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect AlpineDataWorks Intelligence Server, apply this rule, and every adw.air_quality_risk call is checked against it from then on.

FAQ

Questions about adw.air_quality_risk

What does the adw.air_quality_risk tool do? +

County-level air-quality index from EPA AQS annual summaries (ADW-308). Returns national percentile rank, band, median AQI, % unhealthy days, and p90 AQI. Pass county as a 5-digit county FIPS (e.g. '12011') or 'County Name, ST' (e.g. 'Broward County, FL'). Only EPA-monitored counties (~700-1,000 of 3,143) are covered; unmonitored counties return null. It is categorised as a Read tool in the AlpineDataWorks Intelligence Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.

What parameters does adw.air_quality_risk accept? +

adw.air_quality_risk accepts 1 parameter: county. Required: county. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.

How do I enforce a policy on adw.air_quality_risk? +

Register the AlpineDataWorks Intelligence Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for adw.air_quality_risk: 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.

What risk level is adw.air_quality_risk? +

adw.air_quality_risk is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.

Can I rate-limit adw.air_quality_risk? +

Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the adw.air_quality_risk 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.

How do I block adw.air_quality_risk completely? +

Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for adw.air_quality_risk. 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.

What MCP server provides adw.air_quality_risk? +

adw.air_quality_risk 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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