Calculate route between venues
AI agents call edinburgh_festival_venue_routes to retrieve information from Edinburgh Festivals MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a read-only query operation that retrieves and calculates route information between venues based on existing data. There are no side effects, data modifications, deletions, or financial transactions. The classification is Read with low severity because misuse would only expose public venue routing information with minimal harm potential.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'edinburgh_festival_venue_routes' and description states 'Calculate route between venues'. This retrieves routing information without modifying, deleting, or executing external operations. It queries existing venue data to compute directions.
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Calculate route between venues. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Edinburgh Festivals MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Edinburgh Festivals MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for edinburgh_festival_venue_routes: 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 Edinburgh Festivals MCP Server. Nothing to install.
edinburgh_festival_venue_routes 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 edinburgh_festival_venue_routes 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 edinburgh_festival_venue_routes. 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.
edinburgh_festival_venue_routes is provided by the Edinburgh Festivals MCP Server MCP server (richarda23/edfest-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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