List all submissions authored by a given OpenReview profile id (e.g. "~First_Last1").
AI agents call openreview_search_by_author to retrieve information from Openreview without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves publicly available submission metadata from OpenReview venues based on an author identifier. It performs a simple query/list operation to search for and return data without any side effects, write operations, code execution, or destructive actions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could only enumerate a researcher's past submissions, which is already public information on OpenReview.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'List all submissions authored by a given OpenReview profile id', which is a retrieval operation with no modification or execution capability.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List all submissions authored by a given OpenReview profile id (e.g. "~First_Last1"). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Openreview MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Openreview MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for openreview_search_by_author: 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 Openreview. Nothing to install.
openreview_search_by_author 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 openreview_search_by_author 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 openreview_search_by_author. 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.
openreview_search_by_author is provided by the Openreview MCP server (opencodice-research/openreview-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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