hippo_facts_by_confidence

What hippo_facts_by_confidence does on Verimem

AI agents call hippo_facts_by_confidence to retrieve information from Verimem without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why hippo_facts_by_confidence is rated Low

This tool performs a retrieval and filtering operation on stored facts based on a confidence metric. It has no side effects—it does not create, modify, delete, or execute any operations. The verb 'filter' is inherently a read operation. No data is changed, no external systems are triggered, and no irreversible actions occur. This fits squarely within the Read category.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'hippo_facts_by_confidence' and description 'filter facts by confidence range' indicate a read-only query operation that retrieves or filters existing facts without modification, deletion, or execution of external code.

The rule that runs hippo_facts_by_confidence safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Verimem, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For hippo_facts_by_confidence, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "hippo_facts_by_confidence": {}
  }
}

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