Assess recruiter email legitimacy risk signals.
AI agents call check_recruiter_email to retrieve information from RecruiterCheck MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves or analyzes existing data (recruiter emails) to generate risk assessments and signals. It has no side effects beyond returning analytical results. It does not create, modify, delete, or execute operations on external systems. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius if misused—the worst outcome is incorrect risk assessment feedback, which does not directly harm systems or data.
From the tool's definition The tool 'check_recruiter_email' performs analysis and assessment of recruiter emails for risk signals. The verb 'assess' and the broader server purpose ('scam-risk checks') indicate information retrieval and evaluation, not modification or execution of…
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Assess recruiter email legitimacy risk signals. It is categorised as a Read tool in the RecruiterCheck MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the RecruiterCheck MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for check_recruiter_email: 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 RecruiterCheck MCP. Nothing to install.
check_recruiter_email 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 check_recruiter_email 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 check_recruiter_email. 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.
check_recruiter_email is provided by the RecruiterCheck MCP server (jesslbrown/recruitercheck-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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