search
AI agents call search to retrieve information from Contraption Company MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves blog posts and essays using AI-powered semantic search—a read-only operation with no side effects. The empty description lowers confidence slightly, but the server context and sibling tools (fetch, list_posts) clearly indicate data retrieval functionality. Blast radius is minimal: a misconfigured search returns irrelevant content but causes no damage.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search' combined with server description indicating 'semantic search and access to Contraption Company blog posts' confirms this retrieves/queries data. No modification, deletion, or code execution capabilities mentioned.
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search. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Contraption Company MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Contraption Company MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search: 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 Contraption Company MCP. Nothing to install.
search 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 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. 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 is provided by the Contraption Company MCP server (philipithomas/ghost-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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