Search media outlets and publications available for PR placements on Online.PR. Find opportunities to publish press releases, sponsored articles, and guest posts on high-authority websites.
AI agents call search_publications to retrieve information from Online PR - Press Release Distribution 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 operation to discover and browse available publications and media outlets. It retrieves information only and has no side effects—no data is created, modified, deleted, or financial transactions initiated. The action is purely informational, aligning clearly with the Read category.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_publications' and description 'Search media outlets and publications available for PR placements' indicates a query/search operation that retrieves information without modifying data or triggering financial transactions.
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Search media outlets and publications available for PR placements on Online.PR. Find opportunities to publish press releases, sponsored articles, and guest posts on high-authority websites. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Online PR - Press Release Distribution MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Online PR - Press Release Distribution MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_publications: 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 Online PR - Press Release Distribution. Nothing to install.
search_publications 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_publications 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_publications. 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_publications is provided by the Online PR - Press Release Distribution MCP server (onlineprfoundation/online-pr-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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