Search for businesses by name across NY, FL, and CO state filings.
AI agents call search_businesses to retrieve information from Freshfilings without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves public business registration data without side effects. Searching state filings is a read-only operation. Even if an AI misuses it by searching for competitors or similar entities, the damage is limited to information gathering from already-public records. Low severity because blast radius is minimal—no data modification, financial impact, or system compromise possible.
From the tool's definition Tool searches for businesses by name across state filings and returns results. The description contains no language suggesting modification, deletion, or execution of code. It is a pure query/search operation against business entity databases.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Search for businesses by name across NY, FL, and CO state filings. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Freshfilings MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Freshfilings 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 Freshfilings. 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 Freshfilings MCP server (nrfischer10/freshfilings-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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