Search for news articles from ${RSS_SOURCE_NAME} by keyword. Supports category filtering.
AI agents call search-news to retrieve information from The Verge News 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 queries news data from an RSS feed without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a straightforward search function that returns information. No data is altered, no external commands are executed, and no financial transactions occur. This is a classic Read operation with minimal risk.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Search for news articles' and 'Supports category filtering' — these are query operations with no modification or side effects.
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Search for news articles from ${RSS_SOURCE_NAME} by keyword. Supports category filtering. It is categorised as a Read tool in the The Verge News MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the The Verge News MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search-news: 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 The Verge News MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search-news 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 search-news 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 search-news. 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.
search-news is provided by the The Verge News MCP Server MCP server (manimohans/verge-news-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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