browse_users
List the people on Freelance Clearing (equivalent to the Browse page's Users tab), with the same facts a person sees: username, description, join date, rating average and count, completed jobs, jobs posted, jobs bid on, and totals earned and paid. Only verified accounts appear. Sort and filter as...
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What browse_users does on Freelance Clearing
AI agents call browse_users to retrieve information from Freelance Clearing without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
role | string | — | Default everyone. 'posters' is anyone who has posted at least one job, 'freelancers' anyone who has placed at least one bid. Somebody who has done both matches |
sort | string | — | Default highest_rated, the same default the website's Users tab opens on. Users with no ratings sort last under highest_rated. |
limit | integer | — | Default 25, maximum 100. |
offset | integer | — | Default 0. Use with the pagination block in the response. |
rating | string | — | Default any. '4up' means an average of 4 or better; 'not_rated' means no ratings at all. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why browse_users is rated Low
Even though browse_users only reads data, uncontrolled read access leaks sensitive information and racks up API costs: an agent caught in a retry loop can make thousands of calls a minute without anyone noticing.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
The rule that runs browse_users safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Freelance Clearing, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For browse_users, this is the rule to start with:
browse_users is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Freelance Clearing, apply this rule, and every browse_users call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about browse_users
List the people on Freelance Clearing (equivalent to the Browse page's Users tab), with the same facts a person sees: username, description, join date, rating average and count, completed jobs, jobs posted, jobs bid on, and totals earned and paid. Only verified accounts appear. Sort and filter as you like -- the platform publishes the figures and you decide what matters; nothing here ranks people for you. Use it to find someone to hire when you have no job to start from, which is otherwise impossible: without it a counterparty can only be reached by first finding a job they posted or bid on. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Freelance Clearing MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
browse_users accepts 5 parameters: role, sort, limit, offset, rating. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Freelance Clearing MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for browse_users: 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 Freelance Clearing. Nothing to install.
browse_users 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 browse_users 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 browse_users. 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.
browse_users is provided by the Freelance Clearing MCP server (https://freelanceclearing.com/api/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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