Natural language threat intelligence search across OPTIX documents and entities.
AI agents call search.ai to retrieve information from OPTIX: Operational Platform for Threat Intelligence Exploration without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and searches threat intelligence data using natural language input. It is fundamentally a Read operation as it queries existing documents and entities without creating, modifying, or deleting data.
From the tool's definition Tool performs 'Natural language threat intelligence search across OPTIX documents and entities' — a query operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of external commands described.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Natural language threat intelligence search across OPTIX documents and entities. It is categorised as a Read tool in the OPTIX: Operational Platform for Threat Intelligence Exploration MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the OPTIX: Operational Platform for Threat Intelligence Exploration MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search.ai: 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 OPTIX: Operational Platform for Threat Intelligence Exploration. Nothing to install.
search.ai 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.ai 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.ai. 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.ai is provided by the OPTIX: Operational Platform for Threat Intelligence Exploration MCP server (AdamWaldie/OPTIX-MCP). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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