uk-legislation-list-by-year
List all UK legislation of a given type for a specified year.
This record as markdown: /tools/io-github-derekslinz-meta-data-mcp/uk-legislation-list-by-year.md
What uk-legislation-list-by-year does on Meta Data Mcp
AI agents call uk-legislation-list-by-year 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 uk-legislation-list-by-year is rated Low
This tool retrieves legislative data from an open government API without side effects. It is a read-only query operation that retrieves or lists data (UK legislation records). There is no capability to modify, delete, execute code, or perform financial transactions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an attacker could only retrieve publicly available legislative information.
From the tool's definition Tool name and description indicate a query/list operation: 'list all UK legislation of a given type for a specified year.' No modification, deletion, code execution, or financial operations are performed.
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The rule that runs uk-legislation-list-by-year 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 uk-legislation-list-by-year, this is the rule to start with:
uk-legislation-list-by-year is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Meta Data Mcp, apply this rule, and every uk-legislation-list-by-year call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about uk-legislation-list-by-year
List all UK legislation of a given type for a specified year. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Meta Data Mcp MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Meta Data MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for uk-legislation-list-by-year: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Meta Data Mcp. Nothing to install.
uk-legislation-list-by-year is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the uk-legislation-list-by-year rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for uk-legislation-list-by-year. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
uk-legislation-list-by-year is provided by the Meta Data MCP server (pypi:meta-data-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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