get-news-digest
AI agents call get-news-digest 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 retrieves and formats news data with no side effects. The server's purpose is to fetch and present news articles, which is a classic Read operation. The lack of tool-specific description lowers confidence slightly, but the server context and sibling tool names (format-news-markdown, search-everything) reinforce that this is a data retrieval function.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get-news-digest' combined with server description stating it 'fetches, searches, and formats news articles from NewsAPI.org into reader-friendly Markdown digests' indicates a retrieval operation.
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get-news-digest. 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 get-news-digest: 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.
get-news-digest 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-news-digest 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-news-digest. 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-news-digest 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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