Enviar uma pergunta ou mensagem para ${config.botName}. Use quando precisar consultar informações, contexto, ou delegar tarefas específicas.
AI agents call ask to retrieve information from OpenClaw MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The tool queries another AI assistant (OpenClaw) for information and context. While it enables inter-AI communication, it is fundamentally a read operation that retrieves responses without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing external operations. The tool allows delegation but does not itself perform destructive, financial, or executable actions on external systems.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Enviar uma pergunta ou mensagem' (send a question or message) and 'Use quando precisar consultar informações' (use when you need to consult information), indicating it retrieves information from another AI system without modifying…
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Enviar uma pergunta ou mensagem para ${config.botName}. Use quando precisar consultar informações, contexto, ou delegar tarefas específicas. It is categorised as a Read tool in the OpenClaw MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the OpenClaw MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for ask: 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 OpenClaw MCP Server. Nothing to install.
ask 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 ask 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 ask. 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.
ask is provided by the OpenClaw MCP Server MCP server (rodgco/openclaw-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
ask is one line of OpenClaw MCP Server's registry record.
The record carries the whole server: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, every tool classified, recommended policy — re-checked continuously.
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