Get basic summary of a specific flight plan by ID (plan ID, flight number, aircraft, route, distance, flight time only). Minimal detail compared to getFlightPlanById. Use only for brief summaries when user provides a plan ID and explicitly wants limited information.
AI agents call getFlightPlanByIdSummary to retrieve information from SimBrief Flight Planning MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool only retrieves a read-only summary of an existing flight plan. It has no side effects, does not modify any data, and returns limited informational fields. Misuse potential is minimal as it only exposes basic flight planning metadata.
From the tool's definition Get basic summary of a specific flight plan by ID (plan ID, flight number, aircraft, route, distance, flight time only). Minimal detail compared to getFlightPlanById.
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Get basic summary of a specific flight plan by ID (plan ID, flight number, aircraft, route, distance, flight time only). Minimal detail compared to getFlightPlanById. Use only for brief summaries when user provides a plan ID and explicitly wants limited information. It is categorised as a Read tool in the SimBrief Flight Planning MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the SimBrief Flight Planning MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getFlightPlanByIdSummary: 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 SimBrief Flight Planning MCP Server. Nothing to install.
getFlightPlanByIdSummary 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 getFlightPlanByIdSummary 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 getFlightPlanByIdSummary. 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.
getFlightPlanByIdSummary is provided by the SimBrief Flight Planning MCP Server MCP server (leonchike/simbrief-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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