Ask a question about an analyzed repository. Questions can be about structure, purpose, dependencies, patterns, or concerns.
AI agents call ask_repo to retrieve information from Repo Therapist without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries information from a repository analysis. It accepts natural language questions and returns information about code structure, dependencies, and patterns. There is no indication that it modifies data, executes code, deletes anything, or performs financial operations. The queries are read-only introspection of an existing analysis, making it a Read category tool with low severity risk.
From the tool's definition The tool is described as allowing users to 'Ask a question about an analyzed repository' with questions about 'structure, purpose, dependencies, patterns, or concerns.' The verb 'ask' and the focus on querying information about an already-analyzed repository…
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Ask a question about an analyzed repository. Questions can be about structure, purpose, dependencies, patterns, or concerns. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Repo Therapist MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Repo Therapist MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for ask_repo: 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 Repo Therapist. Nothing to install.
ask_repo 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_repo 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_repo. 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_repo is provided by the Repo Therapist MCP server (salman-arefin74/repo-therapist). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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