Get your currently active or in-progress chess games on Lichess. Lists all games you are currently playing, including board position and whose turn it is.
AI agents call lichess_get_ongoing_games to retrieve information from Lichess MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and returns information about the user's ongoing games without modifying game state, executing moves, or triggering external side effects. It is purely informational—a data retrieval operation.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states it 'Get your currently active or in-progress chess games' and 'Lists all games you are currently playing.' These are read/retrieval operations with no data modification, deletion, or execution of external operations.
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Get your currently active or in-progress chess games on Lichess. Lists all games you are currently playing, including board position and whose turn it is. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Lichess MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Lichess MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for lichess_get_ongoing_games: 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 Lichess MCP. Nothing to install.
lichess_get_ongoing_games 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 lichess_get_ongoing_games 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 lichess_get_ongoing_games. 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.
lichess_get_ongoing_games is provided by the Lichess MCP server (jamespdaily/lichess-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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