Search project context for specific information. Use when you need to know about a past decision, convention, or what happened with a specific feature. Searches decisions log, session history, and project state.
AI agents call mindswap_search to retrieve information from Mindswap without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves historical context and project information without side effects. It enables information retrieval across stored decisions, session history, and project state, which is a fundamental Read operation. No data is created, modified, deleted, or executed. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius — an AI agent searching context cannot harm system integrity or cause irreversible changes.
From the tool's definition Tool name contains 'search' and description explicitly states 'Search project context' and 'Searches decisions log, session history, and project state' — all read-only operations that retrieve information without modifying data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Search project context for specific information. Use when you need to know about a past decision, convention, or what happened with a specific feature. Searches decisions log, session history, and project state. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mindswap MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mindswap MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for mindswap_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 Mindswap. Nothing to install.
mindswap_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 mindswap_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 mindswap_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.
mindswap_search is provided by the Mindswap MCP server (mindswap). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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