Fetch a URL and convert the page content to clean Markdown. Removes nav, ads, scripts.
AI agents call html2md to retrieve information from Mcp Services without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This is a data retrieval tool that performs read-only operations on publicly accessible web content. It fetches and reformats data without side effects, modification, or execution capabilities. The cleaning of navigation and scripts is part of the parsing/formatting pipeline on the retrieved content, not execution of those scripts or modification of the target system.
From the tool's definition Tool fetches a URL and converts page content to Markdown. No modification, deletion, or execution of code on the target system. The description explicitly states it 'removes nav, ads, scripts' from the fetched content for presentation purposes only.
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Fetch a URL and convert the page content to clean Markdown. Removes nav, ads, scripts. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Services MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Services MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for html2md: 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 Mcp Services. Nothing to install.
html2md 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 html2md 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 html2md. 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.
html2md is provided by the Mcp Services MCP server (san-npm/mcp-services). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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