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kage_quality

Return memory quality metrics: useful memory ratio, duplicate burden, stale/wrong feedback, evidence coverage, path grounding, and review queue size.

How to control kage_quality ↓

What kage_quality does on Kage

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

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Why kage_quality needs a policy

The tool only retrieves and returns diagnostic/quality metrics about the memory system. It reads and reports statistics without creating, modifying, executing, or deleting any data. Blast radius is minimal as misuse would at worst expose internal quality data.

From the tool's definition Return memory quality metrics: useful memory ratio, duplicate burden, stale/wrong feedback, evidence coverage, path grounding, and review queue size.

Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access kage_quality gives an agent:

How to control kage_quality

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Kage, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for kage_quality:

policy.json
{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "kage_quality": {}
  }
}

kage_quality is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.

  1. Create a free account and register Kage — nothing to install.
  2. Add this policy — paste it, or build it visually.
  3. Point your MCP client (Claude, Cursor, anything) at your gateway URL.
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Questions about kage_quality

What does the kage_quality tool do? +

Return memory quality metrics: useful memory ratio, duplicate burden, stale/wrong feedback, evidence coverage, path grounding, and review queue size. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Kage MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.

How do I enforce a policy on kage_quality? +

Register the Kage MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for kage_quality: 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 Kage. Nothing to install.

What risk level is kage_quality? +

kage_quality is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.

Can I rate-limit kage_quality? +

Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the kage_quality 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.

How do I block kage_quality completely? +

Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for kage_quality. 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.

What MCP server provides kage_quality? +

kage_quality is provided by the Kage MCP server (@kage-core/kage-graph-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.

Enforce policy on every Kage tool call.

Start from Kage, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.

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