Retrieve stories currently on the Hacker News front page. Returns up to 30 stories.
AI agents call get_front_page to retrieve information from HackerNews MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool fetches and returns publicly available Hacker News front page content. It performs no mutations, deletions, executions, or financial operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could retrieve data repeatedly but cannot modify, delete, or execute anything. Confidence is high because the description is clear and unambiguous.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_front_page' and description 'Retrieve stories currently on the Hacker News front page' indicate a read-only retrieval operation with no side effects.
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Retrieve stories currently on the Hacker News front page. Returns up to 30 stories. It is categorised as a Read tool in the HackerNews MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the HackerNews MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_front_page: 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 HackerNews MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_front_page 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 get_front_page 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 get_front_page. 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.
get_front_page is provided by the HackerNews MCP Server MCP server (sam3690/hackernews_mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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