get_forecast
Get a 7-day weather forecast for any city.
This record as markdown: /tools/io-github-scotia1973-bot-api-hub/get-forecast.md
What get_forecast does on GadgetHumans API Hub
AI agents call get_forecast to retrieve information from GadgetHumans API Hub without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why get_forecast is rated Low
This tool retrieves public weather forecast information for a specified city. It performs a simple data lookup without creating, modifying, deleting, executing code, or moving money. The operation is read-only and has minimal security risk even if misused by an AI agent—the worst outcome would be retrieving forecast data for unintended locations.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'get_forecast' and description states 'Get a 7-day weather forecast for any city.' This is a retrieval operation that queries weather data with no side effects or state modifications.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
The rule that runs get_forecast safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and GadgetHumans API Hub, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For get_forecast, this is the rule to start with:
get_forecast 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 GadgetHumans API Hub, apply this rule, and every get_forecast call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about get_forecast
Get a 7-day weather forecast for any city. It is categorised as a Read tool in the GadgetHumans API Hub MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the GadgetHumans API Hub MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_forecast: 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 GadgetHumans API Hub. Nothing to install.
get_forecast 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 get_forecast 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 get_forecast. 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.
get_forecast is provided by the GadgetHumans API Hub MCP server (pypi:gadgethumans-api-hub-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
More on GadgetHumans API Hub, and thousands of servers like it.
This server
Across the catalogue