hippo_skill_bottlenecks

What hippo_skill_bottlenecks does on Verimem

AI agents call hippo_skill_bottlenecks 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_skill_bottlenecks is rated Low

This tool appears to scan or query for bottleneck skills without modifying state, executing external operations, or committing resources. It fits the 'Read' category as a data retrieval and analysis function. Severity is low because misuse would only retrieve information about skills, not cause irreversible harm, financial exposure, or external system execution.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'hippo_skill_bottlenecks' and description fragment 'find candidate skills with' indicate a query/analysis operation that retrieves or identifies skill-related data.

The rule that runs hippo_skill_bottlenecks 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_skill_bottlenecks, this is the rule to start with:

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

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