AI agents call get_tender_announcements to retrieve information from İhale MCP 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 existing tender announcement data from the Turkish public procurement portal without modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a straightforward read operation that returns information in a different format. The context of sibling tools (all search/get operations) reinforces this classification. No destructive, financial, or code execution capabilities are present.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_tender_announcements' and description 'Get all announcements for a tender' clearly indicate data retrieval with no side effects. The HTML-to-Markdown conversion is a formatting operation only.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get all announcements for a tender with HTML-to-Markdown conversion. It is categorised as a Read tool in the İhale MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the İhale MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_tender_announcements: 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 İhale MCP. Nothing to install.
get_tender_announcements 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 get_tender_announcements 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 get_tender_announcements. 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.
get_tender_announcements is provided by the İhale MCP server (saidsurucu/ihale-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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