analyze_home

Home-wide analysis. action: health (offline + battery), safety_audit, energy, stale_items, orphans (broken links),

SERVEROpenhab SOURCEdeswong/openhab-mcp

Low RISK CLASS

Category Read

Parameters 00 required

Recommended Allowedsee the rule below

Registry record Grade F, identity unverified Pull the record →

This record as markdown: /tools/deswong-openhab-mcp/analyze-home.md

WHAT IT DOES

What analyze_home does on Openhab

AI agents call analyze_home to retrieve information from Openhab without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

RISK

Why analyze_home is rated Low

Although 'analyze_home' accesses potentially sensitive operational data (device health, safety audit results, energy consumption), it does not create, modify, delete, execute commands, or move money. It is fundamentally a diagnostic/read operation.

From the tool's definition The tool performs analysis and diagnostic operations: 'health (offline + battery)', 'safety_audit', 'energy', 'stale_items', 'orphans (broken links)'.

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RECOMMENDED RULE

The rule that runs analyze_home safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Openhab, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For analyze_home, this is the rule to start with:

analyze_home Allowed

analyze_home 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": {
    "analyze_home": {}
  }
}

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

The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Openhab, apply this rule, and every analyze_home call is checked against it from then on.

FAQ

Questions about analyze_home

What does the analyze_home tool do? +

Home-wide analysis. action: health (offline + battery), safety_audit, energy, stale_items, orphans (broken links),. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Openhab MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.

How do I enforce a policy on analyze_home? +

Register the Openhab MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for analyze_home: 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 Openhab. Nothing to install.

What risk level is analyze_home? +

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

Can I rate-limit analyze_home? +

Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the analyze_home 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 analyze_home completely? +

Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for analyze_home. 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 analyze_home? +

analyze_home is provided by the Openhab MCP server (deswong/openhab-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.

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