Search contacts across all fields including names, emails, phone numbers, organizations, and more.
AI agents call search_contacts to retrieve information from Google Contacts MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a search/query operation that retrieves contact information without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. The read-only nature and explicit lack of side effects make it a Read category tool. Severity is low because contact search access, while potentially sensitive personal data, carries minimal risk when read-only and requires per-user OAuth authentication.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states 'Search contacts' with access to 'names, emails, phone numbers, organizations' without modification capabilities. Server description emphasizes 'read-only access' and 'zero data storage.'
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Search contacts across all fields including names, emails, phone numbers, organizations, and more. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Google Contacts MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Google Contacts MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_contacts: 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 Google Contacts MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_contacts 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_contacts 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_contacts. 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_contacts is provided by the Google Contacts MCP Server MCP server (offleashxyz/google-contacts-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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