Find papers that cite a given paper (backward citation tracking).
AI agents call search_citations to retrieve information from Q1 Crafter MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries academic citation databases to discover citing relationships. It retrieves existing metadata about citations without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing arbitrary operations. The operation is a read-only search analogous to a library search function. No side effects, reversibility concerns, or resource consumption risks are present.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Find papers that cite a given paper (backward citation tracking)' — retrieves and queries citation data without modification. Verb 'Find' indicates search/retrieval operation.
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Find papers that cite a given paper (backward citation tracking). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Q1 Crafter MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Q1 Crafter MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_citations: 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 Q1 Crafter MCP. Nothing to install.
search_citations 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_citations 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_citations. 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_citations is provided by the Q1 Crafter MCP server (muslus/q1-crafter-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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