Check if remote daemon is reachable. Must be called before first operation.
AI agents call remote_health to retrieve information from Mcp Remote Agent without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a connectivity check to verify the remote daemon is accessible. It retrieves status information without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations on the target system. This is a read-only diagnostic operation with minimal blast radius—a misused health check cannot compromise data or systems.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'remote_health' and description 'Check if remote daemon is reachable' indicates a status check/query operation with no side effects.
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Check if remote daemon is reachable. Must be called before first operation. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Remote Agent MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Remote Agent MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for remote_health: 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 Mcp Remote Agent. Nothing to install.
remote_health 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 remote_health 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 remote_health. 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.
remote_health is provided by the Mcp Remote Agent MCP server (knownothing20/agentport). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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