check_config

What check_config does on Ha Nexus Agent

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

Why check_config is rated Low

This tool performs configuration validation—a diagnostic check that queries the state of Home Assistant configuration files to detect errors. It has no side effects, does not create, modify, delete, or execute anything. The purpose is to verify configuration integrity before a restart action (which would be separate). This is fundamentally a Read operation with minimal risk.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'check_config' and description 'Validate Home Assistant configuration before restart' indicate a read-only validation operation that checks configuration state without modifying or executing changes.

The rule that runs check_config safely

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

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "check_config": {}
  }
}

Questions about check_config