hippo_transcript_recall

What hippo_transcript_recall does on Verimem

AI agents call hippo_transcript_recall 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_transcript_recall is rated Low

This tool retrieves historical conversational transcript data without side effects. 'Pull-only' explicitly constrains the operation to retrieval. No write, execute, or destructive operations are described or implied. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius: even if an AI agent misuses transcript recall, it can only access existing conversation history without modifying systems or data.

From the tool's definition Tool name includes 'recall' and description states 'Pull-only recall over the RAW conversational transcript' — indicates read-only retrieval of existing conversation data with no modification, deletion, or execution capability.

The rule that runs hippo_transcript_recall 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_transcript_recall, this is the rule to start with:

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

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