List recipes in your Old Family Recipe cookbook.
AI agents call recipe_list to retrieve information from Old Family Recipe without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and displays existing recipe data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It is a straightforward read operation with no side effects or blast radius if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'recipe_list' and description 'List recipes in your Old Family Recipe cookbook' indicate a query/retrieval operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of external commands.
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List recipes in your Old Family Recipe cookbook. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Old Family Recipe MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Old Family Recipe MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for recipe_list: 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 Old Family Recipe. Nothing to install.
recipe_list 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 recipe_list 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 recipe_list. 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.
recipe_list is provided by the Old Family Recipe MCP server (oldfamilyrecipe/ai). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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