Look up wine ratings from Vivino.com. Search by wine name/winery or provide direct URL. Returns: average rating (1-5 stars), rating count, wine details. Results are cached.
AI agents call get_vivino_rating to retrieve information from Alko MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries third-party wine rating data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It is a pure read operation that fetches ratings and details about wines. The caching behavior is passive and does not constitute a side effect that changes system state. No financial transactions, code execution, or data destruction occurs.
From the tool's definition Tool 'look up wine ratings' and 'returns average rating, rating count, wine details' indicates data retrieval with no modification or side effects. Queries external Vivino.com API for read-only information.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_vivino_rating gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Alko MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_vivino_rating:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_vivino_rating": {}
}
} get_vivino_rating is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Look up wine ratings from Vivino.com. Search by wine name/winery or provide direct URL. Returns: average rating (1-5 stars), rating count, wine details. Results are cached. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Alko MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Alko MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_vivino_rating: 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 Alko MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_vivino_rating 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_vivino_rating 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_vivino_rating. 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_vivino_rating is provided by the Alko MCP Server MCP server (markusl/alko-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Alko MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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