culture.artic.artwork
Full details for a single artwork — title, artist, date, medium, dimensions, credit line, place of origin, department, provenance, exhibition history, high-res IIIF image URL. Use artwork ID from search results (ARTIC)
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What culture.artic.artwork does on Apibase
AI agents call culture.artic.artwork to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
id | integer | Yes | ARTIC artwork ID from search results (e.g. 16568 for Monet Water Lilies) |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why culture.artic.artwork is rated Low
Retrieves artwork metadata from a public museum database with no side effects or data modification.
From the tool's definition Full details for a single artwork — retrieves artwork information, dimensions, image URL.
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The rule that runs culture.artic.artwork safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For culture.artic.artwork, this is the rule to start with:
culture.artic.artwork 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 Apibase, apply this rule, and every culture.artic.artwork call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about culture.artic.artwork
Full details for a single artwork — title, artist, date, medium, dimensions, credit line, place of origin, department, provenance, exhibition history, high-res IIIF image URL. Use artwork ID from search results (ARTIC). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
culture.artic.artwork accepts 1 parameter: id. Required: id. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for culture.artic.artwork: 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 Apibase. Nothing to install.
culture.artic.artwork 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 culture.artic.artwork 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 culture.artic.artwork. 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.
culture.artic.artwork is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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