Resolve a site-relative path to its canonical absolute URL on the apex host (no www, no trailing slash).
AI agents call seo_get_canonical to retrieve information from Mcp Bot Crawler without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves canonical URL information for a given path. It performs a query or lookup operation to return data (the canonical URL) without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. This is a pure information retrieval function, fitting the Read category with low severity since misuse would only expose publicly-available or configuration-level URL mapping data.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'seo_get_canonical' and description 'Resolve a site-relative path to its canonical absolute URL' indicate a lookup/resolution operation with no side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Resolve a site-relative path to its canonical absolute URL on the apex host (no www, no trailing slash). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Bot Crawler MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Bot Crawler MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for seo_get_canonical: 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 Mcp Bot Crawler. Nothing to install.
seo_get_canonical 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 seo_get_canonical 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 seo_get_canonical. 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.
seo_get_canonical is provided by the Mcp Bot Crawler MCP server (merulocal/hellogrowthcrmwebsite_mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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