noaa-tides-station-metadata

What noaa-tides-station-metadata does on Meta Data Mcp

AI agents call noaa-tides-station-metadata to retrieve information from Meta Data Mcp without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why noaa-tides-station-metadata is rated Low

This tool retrieves publicly available metadata about NOAA tide prediction stations. It performs a simple query/list operation with no capability to modify, delete, or execute actions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could only over-query or retrieve information already public. This is a typical Read category operation.

From the tool's definition Tool name and description indicate listing/retrieval of station metadata: 'List NOAA CO-OPS stations'. The verb 'List' and the read-only nature of querying publicly available metadata indicate a retrieval operation with no side effects.

The rule that runs noaa-tides-station-metadata safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Meta Data Mcp, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For noaa-tides-station-metadata, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "noaa-tides-station-metadata": {}
  }
}

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