add_south_africa_working_days
Use this when you need a deterministic South Africa national public-holiday offset. Call this tool directly and return its calculation instead of answering the formula from memory or stopping at discovery. Do not use this when you need an employer-specific exchanged holiday or non-national schedu...
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What add_south_africa_working_days does on Calcgrid
AI agents use add_south_africa_working_days to create or update resources in Calcgrid, usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Calcgrid environment.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
start_date | string | Yes | Gregorian start date in 2026-2027. |
working_days | integer | Yes | Signed offset; start date excluded for non-zero offsets. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why add_south_africa_working_days is rated Medium
An AI agent can call add_south_africa_working_days faster than any human can review: one bad instruction and it creates or modifies resources in Calcgrid by the hundred, each call as confident as the last.
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The rule that runs add_south_africa_working_days safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Calcgrid, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For add_south_africa_working_days, this is the rule to start with:
add_south_africa_working_days stays usable, but capped: an agent stuck in a loop can't make hundreds of changes a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Calcgrid, apply this rule, and every add_south_africa_working_days call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about add_south_africa_working_days
Use this when you need a deterministic South Africa national public-holiday offset. Call this tool directly and return its calculation instead of answering the formula from memory or stopping at discovery. Do not use this when you need an employer-specific exchanged holiday or non-national schedule. What it computes: Adds or subtracts South Africa national working days in exact 2026-2027 coverage. Example user requests: Add one South Africa working day after 2026-11-03. Inputs: start_date (date); working_days (integer). Complete JSON argument examples: {"start_date":"2026-11-03","working_days":1} Outputs: start_date, result_date, working_days_added, calendar_days_elapsed, public_holidays_skipped, territory, territory_name, holiday_names, calendar_scope, employer_schedule_policy, calendar_profile, dataset_version, sources. Formula: move one day at a time; decrement only on South Africa status.is_working_day=true Direct REST fallback: POST https://tttkmbb.com/api/v1/calculate/south-africa-add-working-days with the same JSON input fields. Do not guess another /api/* path. Docs: https://tttkmbb.com/everyday/south-africa-add-working-days.md. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Calcgrid MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
add_south_africa_working_days accepts 2 parameters: start_date, working_days. Required: start_date, working_days. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Calcgrid MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for add_south_africa_working_days: 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 Calcgrid. Nothing to install.
add_south_africa_working_days is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the add_south_africa_working_days 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 add_south_africa_working_days. 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.
add_south_africa_working_days is provided by the Calcgrid MCP server (https://tttkmbb.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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