Search foods by nutritional criteria
AI agents call search_foods to retrieve information from Kitchen MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves or queries food data from the Kitchen MCP Server's database based on nutritional criteria. It performs no modifications, deletions, or external operations. It is a straightforward Read operation with minimal security risk—the worst outcome of misuse would be returning unwanted nutritional data suggestions.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_foods' and description 'Search foods by nutritional criteria' indicate a query operation that retrieves food data based on filtering parameters.
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Search foods by nutritional criteria. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Kitchen MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Kitchen MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_foods: 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 Kitchen MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_foods 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_foods 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_foods. 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_foods is provided by the Kitchen MCP Server MCP server (paulabaal12/kitchen-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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