Search for settlements (city, town, village) with pagination over the same Address/getCities dataset described in doc 1.3 (Area + Delivery1-Delivery7 fields, daily refresh recommended). IMPORTANT: Always use limit parameter (recommended: 10) to avoid large responses.
AI agents call address_search_settlements to retrieve information from Novaposhta without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool only queries and retrieves address settlement data with no side effects. It fits the 'Read' category as a data search/query function. Severity is low because retrieving address lookup data poses minimal risk even if misused by an AI agent—the data appears to be public address reference information.
From the tool's definition The tool 'address_search_settlements' performs a search operation over a settlements dataset (cities, towns, villages).
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Search for settlements (city, town, village) with pagination over the same Address/getCities dataset described in doc 1.3 (Area + Delivery1-Delivery7 fields, daily refresh recommended). IMPORTANT: Always use limit parameter (recommended: 10) to avoid large responses. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Novaposhta MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Novaposhta MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for address_search_settlements: 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 Novaposhta. Nothing to install.
address_search_settlements 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 address_search_settlements 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 address_search_settlements. 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.
address_search_settlements is provided by the Novaposhta MCP server (@shopana/novaposhta-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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