founder_local_gather

What founder_local_gather does on Nodebench

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

Why founder_local_gather is rated Low

This tool retrieves and aggregates existing local context (git history, logs) for a founder packet. It performs no mutations, deletions, or external operations—purely information gathering from the local filesystem. The incomplete description suggests it primarily performs read operations like git log inspection, making it a Read category tool with low risk.

From the tool's definition Tool name includes 'gather' and description states 'Gathers all locally-available context' and explicitly references 'git log' which is a read-only operation. The verb 'gathers' indicates data retrieval without modification.

The rule that runs founder_local_gather safely

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

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

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