Get a dashboard view of active projects, upcoming todos, and events
AI agents call get_dashboard to retrieve information from MCP Personal Assistant without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and displays aggregated information from the personal assistant system (projects, todos, events) in a dashboard format. It has no side effects, does not modify data, does not execute commands, and does not involve financial transactions. It is a read-only query operation with minimal security risk.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_dashboard' and description 'Get a dashboard view of active projects, upcoming todos, and events' indicate a retrieval-only operation that aggregates existing data without modification, deletion, or execution.
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Get a dashboard view of active projects, upcoming todos, and events. It is categorised as a Read tool in the MCP Personal Assistant MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP Personal Assistant MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_dashboard: 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 Personal Assistant. Nothing to install.
get_dashboard 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_dashboard 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_dashboard. 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_dashboard is provided by the MCP Personal Assistant MCP server (swapnilsurdi/mcp-pa). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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