gift_ideas

Get gift ideas tracked for a specific person, including which are still ideas vs. already bought or given.

Server Personal Brain phantomts/personal-brain-mcp
Category Read
Risk class Low
Parameters 00 required

What gift_ideas does on Personal Brain

AI agents call gift_ideas to retrieve information from Personal Brain without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why gift_ideas needs a policy

This tool retrieves personal gift-tracking information for a specified person. It performs a lookup or query of stored data to surface gift ideas and their status (idea vs. purchased/given), with no side effects, data modification, or external operations. This is a straightforward Read operation on a personal database.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'gift_ideas' and description 'Get gift ideas tracked for a specific person' indicate a retrieval operation. The phrase 'Get' and 'tracked for' confirm this is a query function that retrieves existing data without modifying it.

Questions about gift_ideas

What does the gift_ideas tool do? +

Get gift ideas tracked for a specific person, including which are still ideas vs. already bought or given. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Personal Brain MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.

How do I enforce a policy on gift_ideas? +

Register the Personal Brain MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for gift_ideas: 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 Personal Brain. Nothing to install.

What risk level is gift_ideas? +

gift_ideas is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.

Can I rate-limit gift_ideas? +

Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the gift_ideas 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.

How do I block gift_ideas completely? +

Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for gift_ideas. 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.

What MCP server provides gift_ideas? +

gift_ideas is provided by the Personal Brain MCP server (phantomts/personal-brain-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.

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