Search contacts by name, email, phone number, or other fields. Returns matching contacts with basic info.
AI agents call searchPeopleContacts to retrieve information from Google Workspace 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 contact information without modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is purely a read operation that queries existing contact data and returns results. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could retrieve contact information unnecessarily, but cannot cause financial harm, data loss, or execute external operations.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'searchPeopleContacts' and description 'Search contacts by name, email, phone number, or other fields. Returns matching contacts with basic info.' indicates a query/search operation with no modification of data.
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Search contacts by name, email, phone number, or other fields. Returns matching contacts with basic info. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Google Workspace MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Google Workspace MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for searchPeopleContacts: 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 Google Workspace MCP Server. Nothing to install.
searchPeopleContacts 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 searchPeopleContacts 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 searchPeopleContacts. 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.
searchPeopleContacts is provided by the Google Workspace MCP Server MCP server (pm990320/google-workspace-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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