Today's active reminders + pending tasks due today + overdue items.
AI agents call daily_briefing to retrieve information from Nexus Core without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves existing data (reminders, tasks, overdue items) without side effects. It is a read-only operation that aggregates information for display to the user. No data is created, modified, deleted, or executed.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'daily_briefing' and description indicate retrieval of reminders, tasks, and items: 'Today's active reminders + pending tasks due today + overdue items.' No modification, deletion, or execution of external operations is described.
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Today's active reminders + pending tasks due today + overdue items. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Nexus Core MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Nexus Core MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for daily_briefing: 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 Nexus Core. Nothing to install.
daily_briefing 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 daily_briefing 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 daily_briefing. 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.
daily_briefing is provided by the Nexus Core MCP server (noumenon-ai/nexus-core). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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