Full-text search across preparatory works (legislative history, bills, committee reports).
AI agents call search_preparatory_works to retrieve information from German Law 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 queries historical legal documents (bills, committee reports, legislative history) without creating, modifying, executing, or deleting any data. It is purely informational and has no side effects. The low severity reflects that misuse would at worst return irrelevant or sensitive legislative information, but cannot alter legal systems or trigger external actions.
From the tool's definition Tool performs "full-text search" across preparatory works with no modification or execution capabilities mentioned. The verb "search" and the passive data retrieval nature (querying historical legislative documents) indicate a read-only operation.
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Full-text search across preparatory works (legislative history, bills, committee reports). It is categorised as a Read tool in the German Law MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the German Law MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_preparatory_works: 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 German Law MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_preparatory_works 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_preparatory_works 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_preparatory_works. 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_preparatory_works is provided by the German Law MCP Server MCP server (nenna-ai-gmbh/german-law-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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