Universal search across people, groups, messages, and group members. Args: query (name/phone/keyword), instance_name. Returns: categorized results sorted by relevance.
AI agents call search to retrieve information from Automagik Tools without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries data without side effects. The search operation is fundamentally a read operation that fetches information based on a query parameter. There is no indication of data creation, modification, deletion, or code execution. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius if misused—an agent could retrieve information it shouldn't see, but cannot alter or destroy data.
From the tool's definition Tool performs 'Universal search across people, groups, messages, and group members' with 'query' parameter and returns 'categorized results sorted by relevance'. No modification, deletion, or execution is described.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access search gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Automagik Tools, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for search:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"search": {}
}
}search is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Universal search across people, groups, messages, and group members. Args: query (name/phone/keyword), instance_name. Returns: categorized results sorted by relevance. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Automagik Tools MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Automagik Tools MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for 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 Automagik Tools. Nothing to install.
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 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 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.
search is provided by the Automagik Tools MCP server (namastexlabs/automagik-tools). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Automagik Tools, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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