Get detailed information about a specific medical article by PMID
AI agents call get-article-details to retrieve information from Medical without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries data from medical databases (PubMed) without side effects. It follows the Read category pattern: it fetches information based on an identifier and returns details. There is no capability to modify articles, execute code, delete records, or commit financial transactions.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get-article-details' and description 'Get detailed information about a specific medical article by PMID' indicate retrieval of published medical literature metadata. PMID (PubMed ID) is a bibliographic identifier.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get-article-details gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Medical, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get-article-details:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get-article-details": {}
}
}get-article-details is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get detailed information about a specific medical article by PMID. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Medical MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Medical MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get-article-details: 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 Medical. Nothing to install.
get-article-details 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 get-article-details 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 get-article-details. 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.
get-article-details is provided by the Medical MCP server (jamesanz/medical-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Medical, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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