similarity_search

What similarity_search does on ContextForge MCP Gateway

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

Why similarity_search is rated Low

This tool performs a read-only search operation using embeddings to find semantically similar items. It queries data and returns results without side effects, state changes, or irreversible actions. The blast radius is minimal as it only retrieves information. Severity is low because misuse would be limited to unauthorized data access rather than modification or execution risks.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'similarity_search' and description 'Semantic similarity search using AI embeddings' indicate a retrieval/query operation that searches and returns matching results without modifying, deleting, or executing external operations.

The rule that runs similarity_search safely

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

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

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