Retrieve every award won by a team during a single FRC season year. Returns award name, award type code, event key where the award was given, year, and recipient list (team key plus individual awardee for honors like Woodie Flowers Finalist). Useful for tracking annual recognition such as the Imp...
AI agents call get_team_awards to retrieve information from Tba without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries historical award data from The Blue Alliance (a FIRST Robotics Competition database). It performs a GET operation returning information only—no side effects, no data modification, no code execution, no financial impact. The highest severity read operation would be low risk even if data were sensitive, as reading public competition records poses minimal security risk to the system or user assets.
From the tool's definition The tool retrieves award data for a team ("Retrieve every award won by a team") and returns award name, type code, event key, year, and recipient list. These are read-only queries with no modification, deletion, or execution capabilities.
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Retrieve every award won by a team during a single FRC season year. Returns award name, award type code, event key where the award was given, year, and recipient list (team key plus individual awardee for honors like Woodie Flowers Finalist). Useful for tracking annual recognition such as the Impact Award (formerly Chairman. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Tba MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Tba MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_team_awards: 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 Tba. Nothing to install.
get_team_awards 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_team_awards 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_team_awards. 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_team_awards is provided by the Tba MCP server (@withinfocus/tba-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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