uk-gov-search-datasets

What uk-gov-search-datasets does on Meta Data Mcp

AI agents call uk-gov-search-datasets 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 uk-gov-search-datasets is rated Low

This tool retrieves or queries publicly available metadata from the UK government's open data portal. It has no side effects—it does not create, modify, delete, execute code, or move money. The search operation is a standard read-only data retrieval action against an open API. Even if an AI agent misuses this tool, the blast radius is minimal since it can only return existing public data.

From the tool's definition Tool performs a 'search' operation on a public UK Government data catalog using CKAN's package_search API. The description explicitly indicates querying/retrieval without modification or execution capabilities.

The rule that runs uk-gov-search-datasets 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 uk-gov-search-datasets, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "uk-gov-search-datasets": {}
  }
}

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