Get news from ${RSS_SOURCE_NAME} for the past week. Supports category filtering.
AI agents call get-weekly-news to retrieve information from The Verge News 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 reads and retrieves historical news articles from an RSS feed. It has no capability to modify, delete, execute code, move money, or trigger external operations. The only parameter is filtering by category, which only affects which data is returned, not any data state. This is a straightforward Read operation with minimal security risk.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Get news from ${RSS_SOURCE_NAME} for the past week' with 'category filtering' - purely retrieves/queries news data with no modifications, deletions, or side effects.
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Get news from ${RSS_SOURCE_NAME} for the past week. Supports category filtering. It is categorised as a Read tool in the The Verge News MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the The Verge News MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get-weekly-news: 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 The Verge News MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get-weekly-news 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-weekly-news 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-weekly-news. 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-weekly-news is provided by the The Verge News MCP Server MCP server (manimohans/verge-news-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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