format-news-markdown
AI agents call format-news-markdown to retrieve information from NewsDigest MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool transforms/formats existing news data into Markdown—a read-only operation with no side effects on data creation, modification, deletion, or external execution. It retrieves and reformats previously fetched articles.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'format-news-markdown' and server context indicate this formats news articles into Markdown. Server description states it 'fetches, searches, and formats news articles...into reader-friendly Markdown digests'.
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format-news-markdown. It is categorised as a Read tool in the NewsDigest MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the NewsDigest MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for format-news-markdown: 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 NewsDigest MCP. Nothing to install.
format-news-markdown 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 format-news-markdown 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 format-news-markdown. 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.
format-news-markdown is provided by the NewsDigest MCP server (someilam/news-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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