Search businesses by category and location. Returns ranked hits with name, city, rating, and matchScore. Filters: countryCode, language, subcategory, minRating, maxResults.
AI agents call search_businesses to retrieve information from AI List My Business without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries a business directory and retrieves read-only catalog data. It has filtering parameters (countryCode, language, subcategory, minRating, maxResults) but does not create, modify, delete, or execute any operations. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius: misuse would only surface irrelevant business listings or excessive result sets, with no destructive or financial consequences.
From the tool's definition Tool is described as 'Search businesses' and 'Returns ranked hits with name, city, rating, and matchScore' — purely a data retrieval operation with no write, delete, execute, or financial side effects.
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Search businesses by category and location. Returns ranked hits with name, city, rating, and matchScore. Filters: countryCode, language, subcategory, minRating, maxResults. It is categorised as a Read tool in the AI List My Business MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the AI List My Business MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_businesses: 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 AI List My Business. Nothing to install.
search_businesses 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_businesses 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_businesses. 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_businesses is provided by the AI List My Business MCP server (mutamiri-sudo/ailistmybusiness). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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