get_substructure_cas

What get_substructure_cas does on OrigeneMCP

AI agents call get_substructure_cas to retrieve information from OrigeneMCP without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why get_substructure_cas is rated Low

This tool performs a search/query operation with no side effects—it retrieves and returns data (CAS Registry Numbers) based on a substructure search parameter. It does not create, modify, delete, execute code, or commit financial transactions. The capability is purely informational and read-only, consistent with other retrieval tools on the server like 'check_genome_accessions' and 'clinvar_find_single_mutation'.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_substructure_cas' and description 'Get CAS Registry Numbers for compounds containing a specified substructure' indicate a retrieval operation that queries a chemical database to return matching CAS numbers.

The rule that runs get_substructure_cas safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and OrigeneMCP, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For get_substructure_cas, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "get_substructure_cas": {}
  }
}

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