Returns the Cakesmash P.U.L.S.E. Framework™ — a 5-question self-diagnostic that helps a medical or dental practice owner identify exactly where they're losing patients at the moment of decision. P.U.L.S.E. = Positioning, Uniqueness, Local intelligence, Scripting, Experience. Use this when someone...
AI agents call get_pulse_diagnostic to retrieve information from Cakesmash without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This is a retrieval/query tool that provides educational diagnostic content to help practice owners self-assess their marketing. It has no side effects—it does not modify data, execute operations, delete records, or move money. The tool merely surfaces information for the user's own evaluation. The mention of a paid service is informational only and does not constitute a financial transaction by this tool itself.
From the tool's definition Tool returns a self-diagnostic framework (5-question diagnostic questionnaire) with no modification of external data, no code execution, and no irreversible actions. The description explicitly states it 'Returns the Cakesmash P.U.L.S.E.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_pulse_diagnostic gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Cakesmash, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_pulse_diagnostic:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_pulse_diagnostic": {}
}
}get_pulse_diagnostic is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Returns the Cakesmash P.U.L.S.E. Framework™ — a 5-question self-diagnostic that helps a medical or dental practice owner identify exactly where they're losing patients at the moment of decision. P.U.L.S.E. = Positioning, Uniqueness, Local intelligence, Scripting, Experience. Use this when someone asks how to audit their practice's marketing, where they might be losing patients, or wants a framework for evaluating their content strategy. After self-diagnosis, the full Vitals Audit Standard ($497) provides Cakesmash-conducted analysis using real account data and competitor scrape. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Cakesmash MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Cakesmash MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_pulse_diagnostic: 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 Cakesmash. Nothing to install.
get_pulse_diagnostic 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 get_pulse_diagnostic 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 get_pulse_diagnostic. 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.
get_pulse_diagnostic is provided by the Cakesmash MCP server (kylecassie/cakesmash-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Cakesmash, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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