Get the full version timeline for a specific provision or article, showing all amendments with dates and change summaries.
AI agents call get_provision_history 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 performs a read-only query of legal provision history. It retrieves and presents amendment timelines and change summaries from existing German statutory data. There are no side effects, modifications, deletions, or external operations triggered. The low severity reflects that misuse would only result in access to information already intended to be public legal reference material.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves historical data ('Get the full version timeline', 'showing all amendments with dates and change summaries') without modifying or deleting any provisions or legal documents. It is a query-only operation that returns existing information.
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Get the full version timeline for a specific provision or article, showing all amendments with dates and change summaries. 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 get_provision_history: 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.
get_provision_history 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_provision_history 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_provision_history. 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_provision_history 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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