[Alpha] List Redmine news articles. Returns paginated results with title, summary, author, project, and creation date. Omit project_id to fetch news across all projects, or provide it to scope results to a single project.
AI agents call redmine_list_news to retrieve information from Redmine without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves news data from Redmine. The description explicitly indicates it returns information without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It is a read-only retrieval operation, making it a 'Read' category tool with low severity risk—an AI agent using this tool cannot cause damage to the system or data.
From the tool's definition Tool is 'List Redmine news articles' that 'Returns paginated results with title, summary, author, project, and creation date.' It fetches/retrieves data with no modification or side effects.
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[Alpha] List Redmine news articles. Returns paginated results with title, summary, author, project, and creation date. Omit project_id to fetch news across all projects, or provide it to scope results to a single project. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Redmine MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Redmine MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for redmine_list_news: 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 Redmine. Nothing to install.
redmine_list_news 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 redmine_list_news 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 redmine_list_news. 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.
redmine_list_news is provided by the Redmine MCP server (jesusr00/mcp-server-redmine). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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