Search academic papers from IACR ePrint Archive.
AI agents call search_iacr to retrieve information from Paper Search without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool searches and retrieves academic papers from a scholarly database. It performs a read-only query operation with no side effects—it neither modifies data, executes code, deletes content, nor initiates financial transactions. The worst case for misuse would be information disclosure of already-public academic papers, which carries minimal blast radius.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_iacr' and description 'Search academic papers from IACR ePrint Archive' indicate a query/retrieval operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of external code.
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Search academic papers from IACR ePrint Archive. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Paper Search MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Paper Search MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_iacr: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Paper Search. Nothing to install.
search_iacr is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the search_iacr rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for search_iacr. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
search_iacr is provided by the Paper Search MCP server (its-antony/paper-search). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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