dad_joke

What dad_joke does on TinyFn

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

Why dad_joke is rated Low

This tool retrieves data (a random joke) without creating, modifying, deleting, executing code, or involving financial operations. It is a simple read operation with no ability to affect system state or user data. Severity is low as misuse would only result in retrieving unwanted joke content with no harmful consequences.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'dad_joke' with description 'Get a random dad joke' indicates a retrieval operation with no side effects. The verb 'Get' and the nature of fetching random joke content aligns with read-only data retrieval.

The rule that runs dad_joke safely

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

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

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