searchEntities

What searchEntities does on Nodebench

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

Why searchEntities is rated Low

This tool performs a search query to retrieve entity information filtered by type, sector, or country. The 'returns results' phrasing and lack of any mention of modification, deletion, or execution confirms this is a read-only operation with no side effects. The limited result set (50 maximum) further reduces potential blast radius. Severity is low due to passive data retrieval.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'searchEntities' and description 'Search entities by type, sector, or country. Returns up to 50 results.' indicate a query operation that retrieves data without modification or side effects.

The rule that runs searchEntities safely

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

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

Questions about searchEntities