Search using AI with unstructured search - searches documents, videos, and files using natural language. This tool performs semantic search across unstructured content like PDFs, Word documents, videos, images, and other file types. It uses AI to understand context and meaning, making it ideal fo...
AI agents call ai_search_unstructured to retrieve information from AXYS MCP Lite 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 unstructured data (documents, videos, files) without any capability to modify, delete, or execute operations. It is purely a search/retrieval mechanism with semantic understanding, making it a Read category tool with low severity—the primary risk is unauthorized information disclosure, which is mitigated by typical access controls on the underlying content.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it "searches documents, videos, and files using natural language" and "performs semantic search across unstructured content." The phrase "Can optionally return just file references or full content extracts" indicates retrieval/querying…
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Search using AI with unstructured search - searches documents, videos, and files using natural language. This tool performs semantic search across unstructured content like PDFs, Word documents, videos, images, and other file types. It uses AI to understand context and meaning, making it ideal for finding information in documentation, presentations, or media files. Can optionally return just file references or full content extracts. It is categorised as a Read tool in the AXYS MCP Lite MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the AXYS MCP Lite MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for ai_search_unstructured: 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 AXYS MCP Lite. Nothing to install.
ai_search_unstructured 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 ai_search_unstructured 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 ai_search_unstructured. 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.
ai_search_unstructured is provided by the AXYS MCP Lite MCP server (rajesh-siliconvalleycloudit/axys-mcp-lite). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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