gws_people_search

What gws_people_search does on Iconnect

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

Why gws_people_search is rated Low

This tool searches existing contacts, which is a retrieval operation with no side effects. It does not create, modify, delete, or execute external operations—it only queries contact information. Standard read operations on contact databases pose minimal risk when misused by an AI agent, as the worst outcome is information disclosure of data the agent likely already has access to.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'gws_people_search' and description 'Search contacts in Google People/Contacts' indicate a query operation that retrieves contact data without modification or deletion.

The rule that runs gws_people_search safely

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

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

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