Add a new product or edit an existing one on Open Food Facts. Requires OFF_USER_ID and OFF_PASSWORD. The more fields you fill, the more useful the entry. At minimum provide product_name, brands, and categories — these feed the search index, and a sparse entry won
AI agents use add_or_edit_product to create or update resources in Open Food Facts — usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Open Food Facts environment.
This tool creates or modifies product data in the Open Food Facts database. While the changes are reversible (products can be edited or deleted by other means), the tool itself performs Write operations.
From the tool's definition Tool explicitly performs 'Add a new product or edit an existing one', which are reversible write operations. Description notes fields 'feed the search index', confirming data modification.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Add a new product or edit an existing one on Open Food Facts. Requires OFF_USER_ID and OFF_PASSWORD. The more fields you fill, the more useful the entry. At minimum provide product_name, brands, and categories — these feed the search index, and a sparse entry won. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Open Food Facts MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Register the Open Food Facts MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for add_or_edit_product: 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 Open Food Facts. Nothing to install.
add_or_edit_product is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the add_or_edit_product 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 add_or_edit_product. 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.
add_or_edit_product is provided by the Open Food Facts MCP server (openfoodfacts-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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