Extract and analyze all URLs from a given web page. This tool crawls the specified webpage, identifies all hyperlinks, and optionally adds them to the processing queue. Useful for discovering related documentation pages, API references, or building a documentation graph. Handles various URL forma...
AI agents call extract_urls to retrieve information from RAG Documentation MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs read-only operations: crawling and extracting URLs from web pages, then analyzing and validating them. No data is modified, deleted, or irreversibly changed by the core extraction function. While it mentions optional queue addition, the primary action is information retrieval.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Extract and analyze all URLs from a given web page' and 'crawls the specified webpage, identifies all hyperlinks'.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access extract_urls gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and RAG Documentation MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for extract_urls:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"extract_urls": {}
}
}extract_urls is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Extract and analyze all URLs from a given web page. This tool crawls the specified webpage, identifies all hyperlinks, and optionally adds them to the processing queue. Useful for discovering related documentation pages, API references, or building a documentation graph. Handles various URL formats and validates links before extraction. It is categorised as a Read tool in the RAG Documentation MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the RAG Documentation MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for extract_urls: 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 RAG Documentation MCP Server. Nothing to install.
extract_urls 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 extract_urls 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 extract_urls. 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.
extract_urls is provided by the RAG Documentation MCP Server MCP server (rahulretnan/mcp-ragdocs). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Deterministic rules across all 14 RAG Documentation MCP Server tools. Per-identity grants. Full audit log. Live in minutes. Nothing to install.
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