Calculate sunrise, civil twilight, and recommended arrival time for a birding session at a given location and date.
AI agents call birding_window to retrieve information from Birding Planner without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs read-only computations based on location and date inputs to provide birding timing information. It retrieves or derives data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing arbitrary operations. The output is informational for trip planning purposes with no side effects on external systems or persistent data.
From the tool's definition Tool calculates and retrieves astronomical data (sunrise, civil twilight, recommended arrival time) for a given location and date.
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Calculate sunrise, civil twilight, and recommended arrival time for a birding session at a given location and date. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Birding Planner MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Birding Planner MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for birding_window: 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 Birding Planner. Nothing to install.
birding_window 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 birding_window 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 birding_window. 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.
birding_window is provided by the Birding Planner MCP server (minikdj/ebird-birding-planner). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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