Search for people in Attio CRM. Supports filtering by text (name or email), company, tags, and date ranges. Supports sorting by various fields. All filters are optional. Returns person details including name, email addresses, description, LinkedIn URL, tags, web_url, and created_at.
AI agents call search_people to retrieve information from Attio Simple 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 filters existing CRM records based on optional search criteria. It performs read-only queries against the Attio database with no capability to modify, delete, or execute external actions.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'search_people' and description explicitly states it 'Search[es] for people in Attio CRM' and 'Returns person details' — a query operation with no side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Search for people in Attio CRM. Supports filtering by text (name or email), company, tags, and date ranges. Supports sorting by various fields. All filters are optional. Returns person details including name, email addresses, description, LinkedIn URL, tags, web_url, and created_at. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Attio Simple MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Attio Simple MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_people: 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 Attio Simple MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_people 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_people 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_people. 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_people is provided by the Attio Simple MCP Server MCP server (mlemos/attio-simple-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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