Run a competitor backlink gap analysis: find domains that link to one or more
AI agents call gap_analysis to retrieve information from Crawlgraph without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The tool performs a read-only competitor backlink gap analysis by querying existing data (4.4B edges, 120M domains) from the Common Crawl webgraph. It finds and returns information about domains but does not create, modify, delete, or execute anything. The description is truncated but the intent is clearly analytical/retrieval in nature.
From the tool's definition 'find domains that link to one or more' — this is a query/lookup operation that retrieves backlink gap analysis data from the Common Crawl webgraph
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Run a competitor backlink gap analysis: find domains that link to one or more. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Crawlgraph MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Crawlgraph MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for gap_analysis: 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 Crawlgraph. Nothing to install.
gap_analysis 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 gap_analysis 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 gap_analysis. 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.
gap_analysis is provided by the Crawlgraph MCP server (pucilpet/crawlgraph-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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