get_disease_efo_id

What get_disease_efo_id does on OrigeneMCP

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

Why get_disease_efo_id is rated Low

This is a straightforward data retrieval tool with no side effects. It performs a read-only query operation to map a disease name to its standardized ontology identifier. There is no data modification, code execution, deletion, or financial impact. The low severity reflects minimal risk even if an AI agent misuses it—worst case it returns incorrect or no results.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_disease_efo_id' and description 'Get disease EFO ID by disease name' indicate a lookup/retrieval operation that queries a biomedical database (EFO - Experimental Factor Ontology) to retrieve an identifier based on disease name input.

The rule that runs get_disease_efo_id safely

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

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

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