getVerificationsForFact
Get all verification attempts for a specific fact, including source citations, verdicts, and confidence scores.
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What getVerificationsForFact does on Nodebench
AI agents call getVerificationsForFact 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 getVerificationsForFact is rated Low
This tool retrieves and queries fact verification data. It performs no mutations, deletions, code execution, or financial operations. The read-only nature ('Get all') and the data types being retrieved (citations, verdicts, scores) establish it as a simple Read operation with minimal risk.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'getVerificationsForFact' and description 'Get all verification attempts for a specific fact' indicate a retrieval operation.
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The rule that runs getVerificationsForFact 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 getVerificationsForFact, this is the rule to start with:
getVerificationsForFact 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 Nodebench, apply this rule, and every getVerificationsForFact call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about getVerificationsForFact
Get all verification attempts for a specific fact, including source citations, verdicts, and confidence scores. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Nodebench MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Nodebench MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getVerificationsForFact: 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 Nodebench. Nothing to install.
getVerificationsForFact 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 getVerificationsForFact 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 getVerificationsForFact. 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.
getVerificationsForFact is provided by the Nodebench MCP server (nodebench-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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