Search the Digital Guitar Archive for records. Supports full-text search and field-specific filters.
AI agents call search_guitar_archive to retrieve information from Digital Guitar Archive MCP Server 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 data from a database without side effects. It performs a search operation that returns matching records but does not create, modify, delete, or execute any external actions. The risk is minimal as the worst-case misuse would be retrieving records the user shouldn't see, which has limited blast radius and no destructive consequences.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'search_guitar_archive' and description states it 'Search[es] the Digital Guitar Archive for records' with 'full-text search and field-specific filters'. No modification, deletion, or execution capabilities are mentioned.
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Search the Digital Guitar Archive for records. Supports full-text search and field-specific filters. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Digital Guitar Archive MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Digital Guitar Archive MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_guitar_archive: 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 Digital Guitar Archive MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_guitar_archive 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_guitar_archive 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_guitar_archive. 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_guitar_archive is provided by the Digital Guitar Archive MCP Server MCP server (rcoldwell/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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