Search films Star Wars, in API by title
AI agents call search_films to retrieve information from Simple MCP Server - Star Wars API without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a search/retrieval operation on film data from the SWAPI API. The description explicitly indicates searching by title, which is a read-only query. There is no indication of data creation, modification, deletion, or execution of arbitrary operations. The operation has no side effects and presents minimal security risk.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_films' and description 'Search films Star Wars, in API by title' indicate a query operation that retrieves film data without modification or side effects.
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Search films Star Wars, in API by title. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Simple MCP Server - Star Wars API MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Simple MCP Server - Star Wars API MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_films: 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 Simple MCP Server - Star Wars API. Nothing to install.
search_films 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 search_films 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 search_films. 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.
search_films is provided by the Simple MCP Server - Star Wars API MCP server (ramosjsouza/simple_mcp_server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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