Search the US Treasury OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) sanctions list. Substring match on name, country, program.
AI agents call intel_sanctions_search to retrieve information from Threat Intelligence 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 publicly available sanctions data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could return incorrect compliance information, but the tool itself cannot execute transactions, modify records, or cause irreversible harm. It is a simple lookup/search capability.
From the tool's definition Tool performs 'Search' and 'Substring match' operations on OFAC SDN sanctions list—these are read-only query operations with no data modification or side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access intel_sanctions_search gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Threat Intelligence MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for intel_sanctions_search:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"intel_sanctions_search": {}
}
}intel_sanctions_search is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Search the US Treasury OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) sanctions list. Substring match on name, country, program. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Threat Intelligence MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Threat Intelligence MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for intel_sanctions_search: 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 Threat Intelligence MCP Server. Nothing to install.
intel_sanctions_search 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 intel_sanctions_search 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 intel_sanctions_search. 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.
intel_sanctions_search is provided by the Threat Intelligence MCP Server MCP server (marc-shade/world-intel-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Threat Intelligence MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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