🔍 ALWAYS START HERE: Search for prompts by keyword, category, or tags. Returns matching prompts with their metadata. This is the recommended first step before using get_prompt or creating new prompts. Helps avoid duplicates and find exactly what you need.
AI agents call search_prompts to retrieve information from Smart Prompts MCP Server 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 prompt data from the server without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing anything. It has no side effects beyond returning search results. The absence of any create, update, delete, or execute language, combined with the explicit 'search' and 'returns matching' description, clearly indicates a Read operation with minimal security risk.
From the tool's definition The tool 'search_prompts' performs a search operation that 'Returns matching prompts with their metadata' with no indication of data modification, deletion, or execution of external operations.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access search_prompts gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Smart Prompts MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for search_prompts:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"search_prompts": {}
}
}search_prompts is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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🔍 ALWAYS START HERE: Search for prompts by keyword, category, or tags. Returns matching prompts with their metadata. This is the recommended first step before using get_prompt or creating new prompts. Helps avoid duplicates and find exactly what you need. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Smart Prompts MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Smart Prompts MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_prompts: 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 Smart Prompts MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_prompts 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_prompts 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_prompts. 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_prompts is provided by the Smart Prompts MCP Server MCP server (jezweb/smart-prompts-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Smart Prompts MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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