hippo_lineage_trace

What hippo_lineage_trace does on Verimem

AI agents call hippo_lineage_trace 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_lineage_trace is rated Low

This tool performs a breadth-first search traversal of a graph structure to trace lineage relationships. It retrieves and queries data without modifying, deleting, or executing external operations. The graph walker pattern is consistent with Read category tools like 'search', 'list', or 'fetch'. No side effects or data mutations are implied.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'hippo_lineage_trace' and description 'unified-graph BFS walker' indicate a graph traversal operation that retrieves lineage information. BFS (breadth-first search) is a read-only query pattern.

The rule that runs hippo_lineage_trace 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_lineage_trace, this is the rule to start with:

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

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