get_user_location

What get_user_location does on Ha Nexus Agent

AI agents call get_user_location 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 get_user_location is rated Low

This tool retrieves geolocation data (latitude, longitude, GPS accuracy, and state) from a Home Assistant person entity. It performs a read-only query with no side effects. While the data retrieved (precise GPS coordinates) is sensitive and could enable privacy violations or physical tracking if misused by an agent, the tool itself does not create, modify, delete, or execute anything.

From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Return[s] {latitude, longitude, gps_accuracy, source, state}' for a person entity—a pure data retrieval operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of commands.

The rule that runs get_user_location 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 get_user_location, this is the rule to start with:

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

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