Calculate TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure), BMR, and personalised daily macro targets (protein, carbs, fat) based on the user's stats and goal. Use this when someone asks how many calories they should eat, what their maintenance calories are, or how to set up their macros.
Part of the Nutribalance MCP server. Enforce policies on this tool with Intercept, the open-source MCP proxy.
AI agents use calculate_tdee to create or modify resources in Nutribalance. Write operations carry medium risk because an autonomous agent could trigger bulk unintended modifications. Rate limits prevent a single agent session from making hundreds of changes in rapid succession. Argument validation ensures the agent passes expected values.
Without a policy, an AI agent could call calculate_tdee repeatedly, creating or modifying resources faster than any human could review. Intercept's rate limiting ensures write operations happen at a controlled pace, and argument validation catches malformed or unexpected inputs before they reach Nutribalance.
Write tools can modify data. A rate limit prevents runaway bulk operations from AI agents.
tools:
calculate_tdee:
rules:
- action: allow
rate_limit:
max: 30
window: 60See the full Nutribalance policy for all 5 tools.
Agents calling write-class tools like calculate_tdee have been implicated in these attack patterns. Read the full case and prevention policy for each:
Other tools in the Write risk category across the catalogue. The same policy patterns (rate-limit, validate) apply to each.
Calculate TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure), BMR, and personalised daily macro targets (protein, carbs, fat) based on the user's stats and goal. Use this when someone asks how many calories they should eat, what their maintenance calories are, or how to set up their macros.. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Nutribalance MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Add a rule in your Intercept YAML policy under the tools section for calculate_tdee. You can allow, deny, rate-limit, or validate arguments. Then run Intercept as a proxy in front of the Nutribalance MCP server.
calculate_tdee is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the calculate_tdee rule in your Intercept 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 Intercept policy for calculate_tdee. 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.
calculate_tdee is provided by the Nutribalance MCP server (NutriBalance/nutribalance-mcp). Intercept sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Open source. One binary. Zero dependencies.
npx -y @policylayer/intercept