assistant_search_info

What assistant_search_info does on Slack

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

Why assistant_search_info is rated Low

This tool retrieves metadata about search capabilities rather than executing searches, modifying data, or performing destructive actions. It is a passive information lookup with no side effects, placing it squarely in the Read category with low severity since it exposes only capability information rather than sensitive user data at scale.

From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Get search capabilities for the team' — a retrieval operation that queries and returns information about available search features without modifying any data.

The rule that runs assistant_search_info safely

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

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

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