Query news by Web3 entity name
AI agents call query_reply_by_news_summary to retrieve information from Netmind Web3 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 and queries news information based on a Web3 entity name parameter. It performs a read-only lookup operation with no capacity to modify data, execute code, or trigger external operations. The low severity reflects that news queries pose minimal security risk—the blast radius of misuse is limited to potential information disclosure or resource exhaustion through excessive queries.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'query_reply_by_news_summary' and description 'Query news by Web3 entity name' indicate a retrieval operation that searches or queries news data without modification or side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Query news by Web3 entity name. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Netmind Web3 MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Netmind Web3 MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for query_reply_by_news_summary: 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 Netmind Web3 MCP Server. Nothing to install.
query_reply_by_news_summary 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 query_reply_by_news_summary 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 query_reply_by_news_summary. 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.
query_reply_by_news_summary is provided by the Netmind Web3 MCP Server MCP server (protagolabs/netmind-web3-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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