AI agents call economy.treasury to retrieve information from CIVITAE without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves or displays financial state information (treasury balance, fee collections, payouts) without modifying data or executing transactions. It serves an observational/auditing function aligned with 'economic transparency.' No evidence suggests the tool can move money, create obligations, modify records, or trigger external operations.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'economy.treasury' and description 'Platform treasury balance — fee collections, bounty payouts, and mission payouts. Economic transparency.' indicate retrieval of treasury data for transparency purposes.
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Platform treasury balance — fee collections, bounty payouts, and mission payouts. Economic transparency. It is categorised as a Read tool in the CIVITAE MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the CIVITAE MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for economy.treasury: 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 CIVITAE. Nothing to install.
economy.treasury 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 economy.treasury 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 economy.treasury. 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.
economy.treasury is provided by the CIVITAE MCP server (pypi:civitae-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
economy.treasury is one line of CIVITAE's registry record.
The record carries the whole server: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, every tool classified, recommended policy — re-checked continuously.
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