Gets a comprehensive summary of a Jules session including status, plan, activities, and outputs.
AI agents call jules_get_session_summary to retrieve information from Jules MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries existing session information (status, plan, activities, outputs) without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It has no side effects and poses minimal security risk as it only surfaces information already in the system.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'jules_get_session_summary' and description 'Gets a comprehensive summary' indicate data retrieval without modification. The verb 'Gets' and action of retrieving session state, plan, activities, and outputs are read-only operations.
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Gets a comprehensive summary of a Jules session including status, plan, activities, and outputs. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Jules MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Jules MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for jules_get_session_summary: 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 Jules MCP Server. Nothing to install.
jules_get_session_summary 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 jules_get_session_summary 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 jules_get_session_summary. 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.
jules_get_session_summary is provided by the Jules MCP Server MCP server (streetquant/jules-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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