ai_search_similar

What ai_search_similar does on Odoo Claude MCP

AI agents call ai_search_similar to retrieve information from Odoo Claude MCP without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why ai_search_similar is rated Low

This is a search/query operation that retrieves data based on semantic similarity. It has no side effects, does not modify records, execute code, delete data, or involve financial transactions. It purely retrieves or queries existing data, placing it firmly in the Read category with low severity—misuse would only expose existing information, not alter system state.

From the tool's definition Tool name is 'ai_search_similar' and description indicates it performs 'Semantic search across tokenized Odoo records' with query embedding. No modification, deletion, execution, or financial action is described.

The rule that runs ai_search_similar safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Odoo Claude MCP, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For ai_search_similar, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "ai_search_similar": {}
  }
}

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