List recipes with optional search, sorting, and pagination.
AI agents call list_recipes to retrieve information from Mcp Mealie 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 recipe data without modifying, creating, deleting, or executing any operations. It supports search and pagination which are characteristic of Read operations. No data is changed or deleted, and no external operations are triggered.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_recipes' and description 'List recipes with optional search, sorting, and pagination' indicate a pure retrieval operation with no side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List recipes with optional search, sorting, and pagination. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Mealie MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Mealie MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_recipes: 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 Mcp Mealie. Nothing to install.
list_recipes 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 list_recipes 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 list_recipes. 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.
list_recipes is provided by the Mcp Mealie MCP server (obrien-matthew/mcp-mealie). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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