playlists_trigger_active_announcement

What playlists_trigger_active_announcement does on Propresenter

AI agents invoke playlists_trigger_active_announcement to trigger actions in Propresenter. What it does depends on the arguments the agent supplies, and its effects often reach beyond the immediate call: builds kicked off, notifications sent, workflows started.

Why playlists_trigger_active_announcement is rated High

This tool executes a command to trigger an announcement in ProPresenter 7, which causes an external operation (displaying/playing an announcement) whose effects depend on the current state of the playlist. While the action is reversible (not destructive), it is clearly an Execute-category tool because it performs an operation rather than reading data or making reversible modifications.

From the tool's definition Tool name includes 'trigger' and description states 'Trigger the active announcement in the playlist' — triggering an announcement is an executable action that affects external state (the presentation system).

The rule that runs playlists_trigger_active_announcement safely

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

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "playlists_trigger_active_announcement": {
      "limits": [
        {
          "counter": "playlists_trigger_active_announcement_rate",
          "window": "minute",
          "max": 10,
          "scope": "grant"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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