Get a single Breaking News announcement by ID.
AI agents call get_breaking_news to retrieve information from InvGate Service Desk without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves a breaking news announcement without altering data, executing code, or triggering side effects. It is a straightforward data query operation with minimal risk. The low severity reflects the non-sensitive nature of news announcements and the absence of any destructive, financial, or execution-based capabilities.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_breaking_news' and description 'Get a single Breaking News announcement by ID' indicate a retrieval operation. The verb 'Get' and the absence of any modification, deletion, or execution language confirm this is a read-only query.
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Get a single Breaking News announcement by ID. It is categorised as a Read tool in the InvGate Service Desk MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the InvGate Service Desk MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_breaking_news: 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 InvGate Service Desk. Nothing to install.
get_breaking_news 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_breaking_news 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_breaking_news. 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_breaking_news is provided by the InvGate Service Desk MCP server (oci:ghcr.io/tracegazer/invgate-service-desk-mcp:0.2.0). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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