Search for photos on Unsplash by keywords with advanced filtering options. This tool searches through millions of high-quality, free-to-use photos from the Unsplash platform. You can filter by orientation, color, content safety level, and sort by relevance or recency. Args: - query (string): Sear...
AI agents call unsplash_search_photos to retrieve information from Unsplash MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
unsplash_search_photos performs a query operation that retrieves existing photo metadata from the Unsplash API without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any external operations. The filtering and sorting are applied to read operations only. This is a straightforward search/query tool with minimal blast radius if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool "searches for photos" and "retrieves" data with "filtering options" and "sort by relevance or recency" — pure data retrieval with no side effects or modifications.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Search for photos on Unsplash by keywords with advanced filtering options. This tool searches through millions of high-quality, free-to-use photos from the Unsplash platform. You can filter by orientation, color, content safety level, and sort by relevance or recency. Args: - query (string): Search keywords (e.g.,. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Unsplash MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Unsplash MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for unsplash_search_photos: 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 Unsplash MCP Server. Nothing to install.
unsplash_search_photos 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 unsplash_search_photos 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 unsplash_search_photos. 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.
unsplash_search_photos is provided by the Unsplash MCP Server MCP server (mjordi/unsplash-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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