environment.airquality.city
Real-time air quality index (AQI US + CN), pollutant concentrations (PM2.5, PM10, O3, NO2, SO2, CO), dominant pollutant, temperature, humidity, wind speed for any city worldwide. 30,000+ monitoring stations across 10,000+ cities (IQAir AirVisual)
This record as markdown: /tools/io-github-whiteknightonhorse-apibase/environment.airquality.city.md
What environment.airquality.city does on Apibase
AI agents call environment.airquality.city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
city | string | Yes | City name (e.g. "Los Angeles", "London", "Tokyo") |
state | string | Yes | State or province (e.g. "California", "England", "Tokyo") |
country | string | Yes | Country name (e.g. "USA", "UK", "Japan") |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why environment.airquality.city is rated Low
Retrieves environmental monitoring data with no side effects or mutations.
From the tool's definition Real-time air quality index, pollutant concentrations, temperature, humidity, wind speed retrieval
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
The rule that runs environment.airquality.city 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 environment.airquality.city, this is the rule to start with:
environment.airquality.city 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 environment.airquality.city call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about environment.airquality.city
Real-time air quality index (AQI US + CN), pollutant concentrations (PM2.5, PM10, O3, NO2, SO2, CO), dominant pollutant, temperature, humidity, wind speed for any city worldwide. 30,000+ monitoring stations across 10,000+ cities (IQAir AirVisual). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
environment.airquality.city accepts 3 parameters: city, state, country. Required: city, state, country. 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 environment.airquality.city: 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.
environment.airquality.city 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 environment.airquality.city 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 environment.airquality.city. 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.
environment.airquality.city 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.
More on Apibase, and thousands of servers like it.
This server
Across the catalogue