Normalize and format a German legal citation into a standard form.
AI agents call format_citation to retrieve information from German Law MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool takes a citation string as input and returns a normalized/formatted version. It performs a pure text transformation without querying databases, modifying state, executing code, deleting data, or moving money. The operation is idempotent and reversible.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'format_citation' and description 'Normalize and format a German legal citation into a standard form' indicate a data transformation operation on input text with no side effects, no data retrieval, modification, deletion, or external execution.
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Normalize and format a German legal citation into a standard form. It is categorised as a Read tool in the German Law MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the German Law MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for format_citation: 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 German Law MCP Server. Nothing to install.
format_citation 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 format_citation 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 format_citation. 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.
format_citation is provided by the German Law MCP Server MCP server (nenna-ai-gmbh/german-law-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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