generate_home_blueprint
Full room-by-room Markdown guide of the home. Use for layout exploration or when a user explicitly asks for a home overview — NOT as a first step (use initial_discovery instead).
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What generate_home_blueprint does on Openhab
AI agents call generate_home_blueprint 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.
Why generate_home_blueprint is rated Low
This tool generates a descriptive Markdown document summarizing the home layout. It retrieves and presents existing data (room-by-room guide) without modifying, executing, or deleting anything. It is purely informational/read-only in nature.
From the tool's definition Full room-by-room Markdown guide of the home... for layout exploration or when a user explicitly asks for a home overview
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The rule that runs generate_home_blueprint 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 generate_home_blueprint, this is the rule to start with:
generate_home_blueprint 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 Openhab, apply this rule, and every generate_home_blueprint call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about generate_home_blueprint
Full room-by-room Markdown guide of the home. Use for layout exploration or when a user explicitly asks for a home overview — NOT as a first step (use initial_discovery instead). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Openhab MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Openhab MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for generate_home_blueprint: 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.
generate_home_blueprint 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 generate_home_blueprint 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 generate_home_blueprint. 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.
generate_home_blueprint 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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