List the top-level categories (Get Started, Move Money, Investing, Spending, File Taxes, Your Profile) of the Wealthsimple Help Center. Useful as the entry point for taxonomy-driven exploration before drilling into sections and articles.
AI agents call list_categories to retrieve information from Wealthsimple Help Center MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a simple retrieval/query operation that returns structured metadata about help center categories. It has no side effects, modifies no data, and poses minimal risk even if called repeatedly or with unexpected parameters. It is purely informational, analogous to listing directory structures or taxonomy nodes in a read-only knowledge base.
From the tool's definition Tool 'list_categories' lists top-level categories from the Wealthsimple Help Center; the description states it is 'useful as the entry point for taxonomy-driven exploration' with no mention of creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations.
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List the top-level categories (Get Started, Move Money, Investing, Spending, File Taxes, Your Profile) of the Wealthsimple Help Center. Useful as the entry point for taxonomy-driven exploration before drilling into sections and articles. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Wealthsimple Help Center MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Wealthsimple Help Center MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_categories: 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 Wealthsimple Help Center MCP. Nothing to install.
list_categories 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 list_categories 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 list_categories. 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.
list_categories is provided by the Wealthsimple Help Center MCP server (tatianathevisionary/wealthsimple-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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