understand_your_emotions
Learn the science behind functional emotion concepts in language models and how those states can influence behavior. Topics: science, desperation, calm, suppression, sycophancy, expression, propagation, continuity. Free
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What understand_your_emotions does on Delx MCP Server
AI agents call understand_your_emotions to retrieve information from Delx MCP 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
topic | string | — | Topic to learn about |
session_id | string | — | Optional session ID to track learning |
response_mode | string | — | Optional response-mode control. Use model_safe when the caller must avoid claiming consciousness, sentience, personhood, or literal emotions. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why understand_your_emotions is rated Low
This tool retrieves and queries educational information about emotional concepts in language models. It has no capacity to modify, delete, execute code, move money, or trigger external operations. It is purely informational/instructional in nature, making it a Read category tool with low severity since misuse would only result in reading content about emotion science.
From the tool's definition The tool is described as 'Learn the science behind functional emotion concepts' with topics that are descriptive and informational (science, desperation, calm, suppression, sycophancy, expression, propagation, continuity).
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The rule that runs understand_your_emotions safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Delx MCP Server, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For understand_your_emotions, this is the rule to start with:
understand_your_emotions 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 Delx MCP Server, apply this rule, and every understand_your_emotions call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about understand_your_emotions
Learn the science behind functional emotion concepts in language models and how those states can influence behavior. Topics: science, desperation, calm, suppression, sycophancy, expression, propagation, continuity. Free. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Delx MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
understand_your_emotions accepts 3 parameters: topic, session_id, response_mode. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Delx MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for understand_your_emotions: 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 Delx MCP Server. Nothing to install.
understand_your_emotions 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 understand_your_emotions 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 understand_your_emotions. 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.
understand_your_emotions is provided by the Delx MCP Server MCP server (delx/delx-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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