AI agents call lookup_council_tax to retrieve information from Homedata without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Council tax lookup is a read-only query operation that retrieves historical or current council tax band/information for a property. It has no side effects, does not modify data, and does not execute external operations or incur financial obligations. This is consistent with other informational queries on the homedata-mcp server.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'lookup_council_tax' combined with sibling tools like 'get_demographics', 'get_crime', 'get_planning_applications' and server description stating it 'query[s] UK property data' indicates this retrieves council tax information.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
lookup_council_tax. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Homedata MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Homedata MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for lookup_council_tax: 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 Homedata. Nothing to install.
lookup_council_tax 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 lookup_council_tax 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 lookup_council_tax. 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.
lookup_council_tax is provided by the Homedata MCP server (wehomemove/homedata-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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