AI agents call search_authorities 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 searches and retrieves information about Turkish government authorities—a data lookup function with no capacity to modify, delete, execute operations, or create financial obligations. The 'search' operation is clearly a read-only retrieval of reference/classification data, consistent with the broader server's purpose of accessing public procurement portal information.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_authorities' and description 'Search Turkish government authorities/institutions' indicate a query operation that retrieves publicly available reference data without modification or side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Search Turkish government authorities/institutions. 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 search_authorities: 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.
search_authorities 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_authorities 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_authorities. 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_authorities 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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