hippo_recall_explain

What hippo_recall_explain does on Verimem

AI agents call hippo_recall_explain 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_recall_explain is rated Low

This tool queries or retrieves data from the bi-temporal memory system and explains results, consistent with Read category behavior (search, fetch, get). There is no indication of data creation, modification, deletion, code execution, or financial operations. Severity is low because retrieval operations have minimal blast radius.

From the tool's definition Tool name contains 'recall' and description indicates it retrieves/explains results similar to `hippo_recall`, which is a memory retrieval operation. The verb 'recall' and context of a 'memory engine' indicate data querying without modification.

The rule that runs hippo_recall_explain 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_recall_explain, this is the rule to start with:

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

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