search_papers_by_author

What search_papers_by_author does on CLIO Adios

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

Why search_papers_by_author is rated Low

This tool retrieves scholarly publication metadata from ArXiv based on author search criteria. It is a read-only query operation with no side effects, no code execution, no financial implications, and no data modification capabilities. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius—worst case, an AI agent searches for papers repeatedly, causing no harm to systems or data.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_papers_by_author' and description 'Search ArXiv papers by author name' indicate a query operation that retrieves existing data without modification, deletion, or execution of arbitrary code.

The rule that runs search_papers_by_author safely

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

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

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