Get Orion Context Broker version and uptime. Use to verify connectivity.
AI agents call orion_get_version to retrieve information from Fiware Orion without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves version and uptime information, which is a read-only operation with no side effects. It has minimal blast radius—worst case, an attacker gains awareness of the system version for reconnaissance, but cannot modify, delete, or execute anything. This is a diagnostic/connectivity check tool.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'orion_get_version' and description 'Get Orion Context Broker version and uptime' indicate a simple query operation that retrieves metadata about the broker without modifying any data or triggering external operations.
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Get Orion Context Broker version and uptime. Use to verify connectivity. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Fiware Orion MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Fiware Orion MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for orion_get_version: 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 Fiware Orion. Nothing to install.
orion_get_version 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 orion_get_version 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 orion_get_version. 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.
orion_get_version is provided by the Fiware Orion MCP server (k2iser/fiware-orion-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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