Get the current top stories from Hacker News.
AI agents call hn_top_stories to retrieve information from Mcp Everything without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves publicly available data from Hacker News without modifying, creating, deleting, or executing any operations. It has minimal blast radius—misuse would only retrieve information already public. No data is written, destroyed, or executed. This is a straightforward Read operation with low severity risk.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'hn_top_stories' and description 'Get the current top stories from Hacker News' indicate a retrieval operation with no side effects. The verb 'Get' and the read-only nature of fetching published stories confirms this is a query operation.
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Get the current top stories from Hacker News. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Everything MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Everything MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for hn_top_stories: 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 Mcp Everything. Nothing to install.
hn_top_stories 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 hn_top_stories 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 hn_top_stories. 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.
hn_top_stories is provided by the Mcp Everything MCP server (wellix260/mcp-everything). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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