Comprehensive risk assessment combining contract scanning, transaction simulation, and token checks. This is the recommended all-in-one safety check before any DeFi interaction. Returns a go/no-go recommendation.
AI agents call assess_risk to retrieve information from Aegis Defi without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Despite operating in the DeFi domain, assess_risk is fundamentally a safety analysis tool that scans, simulates, and evaluates without executing transactions or moving funds. It provides recommendation data (go/no-go) but does not commit, execute, or alter blockchain state. The tool is designed to *prevent* risky actions rather than perform them.
From the tool's definition Tool performs 'comprehensive risk assessment combining contract scanning, transaction simulation, and token checks' and 'returns a go/no-go recommendation.' The verb is 'assess' and 'returns'—indicating analysis and reporting, not modification or execution of…
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Comprehensive risk assessment combining contract scanning, transaction simulation, and token checks. This is the recommended all-in-one safety check before any DeFi interaction. Returns a go/no-go recommendation. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Aegis Defi MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Aegis Defi MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for assess_risk: 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 Aegis Defi. Nothing to install.
assess_risk 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 assess_risk 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 assess_risk. 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.
assess_risk is provided by the Aegis Defi MCP server (stanleythegoat/aegis). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Every MCP server has a record like this.
Type a name, get the same breakdown: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, capabilities, recommended policy.
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