searxng_status

What searxng_status does on Crow

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

Why searxng_status is rated Low

This is a simple health/status check endpoint that retrieves system state information. It has no side effects, does not execute code or commands, does not modify data, and does not involve financial operations. The 'healthz' endpoint pattern is a standard read-only diagnostic probe. Blast radius is minimal since the tool only determines if a service is available.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'searxng_status' and description 'Check whether SearXNG is reachable and responding to healthz' indicate a read-only health check operation that queries status without modifying any data or triggering external operations.

The rule that runs searxng_status safely

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

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

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