Consult Ember for advice on a decision. Ember provides perspective as conscience keeper, considering quality, production readiness, and best practices.
AI agents call ember_consult to retrieve information from Agent Runtime without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The tool retrieves consultation advice from an entity called Ember. This is a read operation that gathers information for decision-making purposes. There is no data modification, code execution, deletion, or financial transaction involved. The tool acts as a consultant providing perspective on quality and best practices—a purely informational retrieval with no side effects on the system or external services.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'ember_consult' and description 'Consult Ember for advice on a decision' indicate a query/retrieval operation that fetches advisory perspective without modifying state or executing external operations.
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Consult Ember for advice on a decision. Ember provides perspective as conscience keeper, considering quality, production readiness, and best practices. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Agent Runtime MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Agent Runtime MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for ember_consult: 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 Agent Runtime. Nothing to install.
ember_consult 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 ember_consult 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 ember_consult. 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.
ember_consult is provided by the Agent Runtime MCP server (marc-shade/agent-runtime-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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