Get Swiss electricity tariff (price in Rappen/kWh) for a municipality from ElCom (Swiss Federal Electricity Commission). Returns total price and price breakdown by component (energy, grid, taxes). Valid years: 2011–2026.
AI agents call get_electricity_tariff to retrieve information from Mcp Swiss without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves historical and current electricity tariff information from a public data source (ElCom). It performs a simple data query with no capability to modify, delete, or execute arbitrary operations. The action is read-only and informational in nature. Severity is low because misuse would only result in unwanted information retrieval, not system compromise or financial impact.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_electricity_tariff' and description 'Get Swiss electricity tariff...Returns total price and price breakdown' indicate retrieval of publicly available tariff data with no modification or side effects.
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Get Swiss electricity tariff (price in Rappen/kWh) for a municipality from ElCom (Swiss Federal Electricity Commission). Returns total price and price breakdown by component (energy, grid, taxes). Valid years: 2011–2026. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Swiss MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Swiss MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_electricity_tariff: 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 Mcp Swiss. Nothing to install.
get_electricity_tariff 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_electricity_tariff 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_electricity_tariff. 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_electricity_tariff is provided by the Mcp Swiss MCP server (mcp-swiss). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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