hippo_skill_top

What hippo_skill_top does on Verimem

AI agents call hippo_skill_top 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_top is rated Low

This tool queries and returns ranked skill data. The verb 'sorted by' and the listing nature indicate data retrieval only. No side effects, state changes, or external operations are triggered. The description is sparse but clearly indicates a read-only ranking/filtering operation on existing skill data. Low severity due to read-only nature and limited blast radius even if misused.

From the tool's definition Tool retrieves and sorts top-k skills by fitness metric; described as a query/listing operation ('sorted by') with no indication of modification, deletion, or execution of external operations.

The rule that runs hippo_skill_top 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_top, this is the rule to start with:

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

Questions about hippo_skill_top