Show the temporal neighborhood around a document — what was created/modified before and after it. Token-efficient progressive disclosure: search → timeline (context) → get (full content). Use after finding a document via search to understand what happened around it.
AI agents call timeline to retrieve information from ClawMem without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
timeline retrieves and displays temporal metadata about documents (creation/modification timestamps and context) without modifying any data. It serves as a contextual read operation between search and full content retrieval. There are no write, execute, destructive, or financial implications.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Show[s] the temporal neighborhood around a document — what was created/modified before and after it' and explicitly positions it in a read-focused workflow: 'search → timeline (context) → get (full content)'.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access timeline gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and ClawMem, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for timeline:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"timeline": {}
}
}timeline is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Show the temporal neighborhood around a document — what was created/modified before and after it. Token-efficient progressive disclosure: search → timeline (context) → get (full content). Use after finding a document via search to understand what happened around it. It is categorised as a Read tool in the ClawMem MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the ClawMem MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for timeline: 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 ClawMem. Nothing to install.
timeline 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 timeline 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 timeline. 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.
timeline is provided by the ClawMem MCP server (yoloshii/clawmem). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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