group-inspect
Inspect verified group metadata, admins, members and relay-defined roles in one relay-scoped view.
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What group-inspect does on Nostr Bray
AI agents call group-inspect to retrieve information from Nostr Bray without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why group-inspect is rated Low
The tool performs inspection and querying of group metadata from a relay. The verb 'inspect' combined with the scope (metadata, admins, members, roles) clearly indicates read-only operations that retrieve existing data without creating, modifying, or deleting anything. No side effects are described. This is a straightforward data retrieval tool with minimal risk if misused.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'group-inspect' and description 'Inspect verified group metadata, admins, members and relay-defined roles' indicate retrieval and querying of group information with no modification or destructive capability.
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The rule that runs group-inspect safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Nostr Bray, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For group-inspect, this is the rule to start with:
group-inspect 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 Nostr Bray, apply this rule, and every group-inspect call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about group-inspect
Inspect verified group metadata, admins, members and relay-defined roles in one relay-scoped view. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Nostr Bray MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Nostr Bray MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for group-inspect: 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 Nostr Bray. Nothing to install.
group-inspect 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 group-inspect 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 group-inspect. 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.
group-inspect is provided by the Nostr Bray MCP server (nostr-bray). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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