status_post_updates

What status_post_updates does on Propresenter

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

Why status_post_updates is rated Low

Subscribing to status updates is a read-only operation that retrieves data without modifying ProPresenter state, creating side effects, or executing arbitrary code. The 'post updates' phrasing refers to posting updates to a subscriber (the caller), not posting data to modify system state. This is consistent with the Read category for data retrieval operations.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'status_post_updates' and description 'Subscribe to status updates with specific configuration' indicate a subscription/listener pattern for receiving status information from ProPresenter 7.

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

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

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