hippo_recall_history

What hippo_recall_history does on Verimem

AI agents call hippo_recall_history 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_history is rated Low

This tool retrieves historical facts from a bi-temporal memory engine without modifying, deleting, or executing arbitrary operations. It is a query/retrieval operation that reads data and enriches it with context. No side effects or irreversible actions are performed. Classification as Read is appropriate; severity is low because data retrieval poses minimal risk even if misused by an agent.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'hippo_recall_history' and description 'Answer-with-history recall: live top-k facts, each enriched with' indicate data retrieval and querying of stored facts with temporal context.

The rule that runs hippo_recall_history 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_history, this is the rule to start with:

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

Questions about hippo_recall_history