search_modules_people

What search_modules_people does on Slack

AI agents call search_modules_people 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 search_modules_people is rated Low

The tool performs a search/query operation to retrieve information about people in Slack, which is a read-only action with no side effects. However, severity is elevated to medium because searching for people data could expose personally identifiable information (PII) or organizational structure details if misused by an agent, depending on access controls and what data is returned.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_modules_people' indicates a search operation querying people data. Server description states it provides 'search' capabilities for accessing Slack data. No modifying, destructive, or financial operations are implied.

The rule that runs search_modules_people 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 search_modules_people, this is the rule to start with:

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

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