Search across 150,000+ news sources. Use for any topic, keyword, or company name.
AI agents call search_news to retrieve information from NewsAPI MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
search_news retrieves and queries news data based on keywords or topics without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It has no side effects and presents minimal risk of misuse—the worst outcome would be retrieving irrelevant or sensitive news articles, which poses no material harm to systems or data.
From the tool's definition Tool performs 'Search across 150,000+ news sources' with no mention of modification, deletion, or execution capabilities. Sibling tools (get_sources, get_tech_briefing, get_top_headlines) are also read-only query operations.
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Search across 150,000+ news sources. Use for any topic, keyword, or company name. It is categorised as a Read tool in the NewsAPI MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the NewsAPI MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_news: 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 NewsAPI MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_news 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_news 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_news. 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_news is provided by the NewsAPI MCP Server MCP server (ranydone/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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