Extract and analyze all URLs from a given web page. This tool crawls the specified webpage, identifies all hyperlinks, and optionally adds them to the processing queue. Useful for discovering related documentation pages, API references, or building a documentation graph. Handles various URL forma...
AI agents call extract_urls to retrieve information from RAG Documentation 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 analyzes hyperlinks from web pages without modifying, deleting, or executing arbitrary code. While it can optionally queue URLs for processing, the extraction itself is a read operation. The absence of destructive capabilities, code execution, financial transactions, or irreversible modifications places it firmly in the Read category.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'extract[s] and analyze[s] all URLs from a given web page' and 'identifies all hyperlinks' — purely retrieval operations with 'no side effects' on the source material.
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Extract and analyze all URLs from a given web page. This tool crawls the specified webpage, identifies all hyperlinks, and optionally adds them to the processing queue. Useful for discovering related documentation pages, API references, or building a documentation graph. Handles various URL formats and validates links before extraction. It is categorised as a Read tool in the RAG Documentation MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the RAG Documentation MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for extract_urls: 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 RAG Documentation MCP Server. Nothing to install.
extract_urls 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 extract_urls 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 extract_urls. 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.
extract_urls is provided by the RAG Documentation MCP Server MCP server (jumasheff/mcp-ragdoc-fork). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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