Search for diseases in the Alliance database.
AI agents call search_diseases to retrieve information from AGR 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 or queries disease information from a read-only genomics database without side effects. No data is created, modified, deleted, or financial transactions occur. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could retrieve excessive data or perform DoS via repeated queries, but cannot alter the database or cause financial harm.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_diseases' and description 'Search for diseases in the Alliance database' indicate a query operation with no data modification, deletion, or execution of arbitrary code.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Search for diseases in the Alliance database. It is categorised as a Read tool in the AGR MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the AGR MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_diseases: 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 AGR MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_diseases 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_diseases 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_diseases. 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_diseases is provided by the AGR MCP Server MCP server (nuin/agr-mcp-server-js). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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