nominatim-search

What nominatim-search does on Meta Data Mcp

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

Why nominatim-search is rated Low

This tool retrieves geographic location data from OpenStreetMap Nominatim in response to a search query. It has no side effects, cannot modify or delete data, and does not execute code or trigger external operations beyond a simple API lookup. It clearly falls under the 'Read' category as a data retrieval operation.

From the tool's definition Tool description: 'Forward-geocode a free-text query against OpenStreetMap Nominatim.' The action is querying/searching geographic data with no modification, deletion, or execution of arbitrary code. Nominatim is a read-only geocoding API.

The rule that runs nominatim-search safely

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

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "nominatim-search": {}
  }
}

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