Search your Mendeley library for documents.
AI agents call mendeley_search_library to retrieve information from Mendeley without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves/queries data from the user's Mendeley library without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing anything. It is a standard search operation that returns results but does not alter state. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an AI agent could retrieve unwanted documents or privacy-sensitive information, but cannot cause data loss or other harmful actions. Classification: Read, Severity: low.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'mendeley_search_library' combined with description 'Search your Mendeley library for documents' clearly indicates a read-only query operation with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access mendeley_search_library gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Mendeley, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for mendeley_search_library:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"mendeley_search_library": {}
}
}mendeley_search_library is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Search your Mendeley library for documents. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mendeley MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mendeley MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for mendeley_search_library: 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 Mendeley. Nothing to install.
mendeley_search_library 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 mendeley_search_library 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 mendeley_search_library. 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.
mendeley_search_library is provided by the Mendeley MCP server (pallaprolus/mendeley-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Mendeley, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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