Sunday-flavored weekly digest: journal entries logged this week, house projects that moved, workouts completed, gifts given/bought, and what
AI agents call weekly_review 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.
The weekly_review tool compiles a summary of existing personal data across multiple domains (journals, home projects, fitness, gifts). It performs semantic retrieval and aggregation only; the description contains no verbs indicating creation, modification, deletion, or execution of external operations. The incomplete description ('and what') suggests informational retrieval.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves and aggregates weekly digest data including 'journal entries logged this week, house projects that moved, workouts completed, gifts given/bought' — all query/retrieval operations with no modification or side effects.
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Sunday-flavored weekly digest: journal entries logged this week, house projects that moved, workouts completed, gifts given/bought, and what. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Personal Brain MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Personal Brain MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for weekly_review: 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.
weekly_review 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 weekly_review 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 weekly_review. 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.
weekly_review 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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