Validate citation quality and accuracy against source documents
AI agents call rag.assess_citation_accuracy to retrieve information from ContextForge MCP Gateway without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The tool performs citation accuracy validation by examining existing citations and comparing them against source documents. This is a retrieval and analysis operation with no side effects—it does not create, modify, delete, or execute external operations. The verb 'assess' and 'validate' confirm it is an inspection/read activity. Confidence is high because the description is clear and unambiguous.
From the tool's definition Tool name and description indicate validation/assessment of citations against source documents: 'Validate citation quality and accuracy against source documents'.
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Validate citation quality and accuracy against source documents. It is categorised as a Read tool in the ContextForge MCP Gateway MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the ContextForge MCP Gateway MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for rag.assess_citation_accuracy: 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 ContextForge MCP Gateway. Nothing to install.
rag.assess_citation_accuracy 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 rag.assess_citation_accuracy 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 rag.assess_citation_accuracy. 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.
rag.assess_citation_accuracy is provided by the ContextForge MCP Gateway MCP server (jrmatherly/mcp-context-forge). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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