hippo_facts_search

What hippo_facts_search does on Verimem

AI agents call hippo_facts_search 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_search is rated Low

This tool performs a search operation over stored facts, which is a retrieval activity with no side effects. It does not create, modify, delete, or execute external operations. The scope is constrained to keyword/substring matching, making it a straightforward Read operation with minimal risk of misuse—an AI agent using this tool can only access existing information, not alter system state or cause harm.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'hippo_facts_search' and description 'Keyword/substring search over facts' indicate a query operation that retrieves data without modifying or deleting it. The search functionality is read-only.

The rule that runs hippo_facts_search 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_search, this is the rule to start with:

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

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