Sally reviews marketing copy, branding, and landing-page text before your customers do it less kindly. Use when the user wants copy, taglines, or brand messaging critiqued — returns before/after rewrites with the reasoning. Sends only the provided text to the Cynical Sally backend — never stored,...
AI agents call sally_marketing to retrieve information from Cynical Sally without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool accepts user-provided marketing text as input and returns critiqued/rewritten versions and reasoning. It has no capability to modify, delete, execute code, trigger external operations, or move money. The explicit statement that it is 'read-only' and 'never modifies files' confirms it is purely an analysis/retrieval operation.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states 'Read-only: never modifies files' and 'Sends only the provided text to the Cynical Sally backend — never stored, never used for training.' The tool 'reviews marketing copy, branding, and landing-page text' and 'returns…
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access sally_marketing gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Cynical Sally, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for sally_marketing:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"sally_marketing": {}
}
}sally_marketing is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Sally reviews marketing copy, branding, and landing-page text before your customers do it less kindly. Use when the user wants copy, taglines, or brand messaging critiqued — returns before/after rewrites with the reasoning. Sends only the provided text to the Cynical Sally backend — never stored, never used for training. Read-only: never modifies files. Premium tool: one free use per month on the free tier, unlimited with Full Suite. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Cynical Sally MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Cynical Sally MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for sally_marketing: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Cynical Sally. Nothing to install.
sally_marketing is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the sally_marketing rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for sally_marketing. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
sally_marketing is provided by the Cynical Sally MCP server (w1ckedxt/cynical-sally). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Deterministic rules across all 8 Cynical Sally tools. Per-identity grants. Full audit log. Live in minutes. Nothing to install.
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8 Cynical Sally tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 42,500+ MCP servers.