Search Salesforce Accounts by name using SOSL full-text search. Returns matching accounts with Id, name, industry, billing city, phone, website, and owner. Use to find an Account ID before looking up contacts or opportunities.
AI agents call sf_search_accounts to retrieve information from Salesforce Marketing without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
q | string | Yes | Search query (account name or domain) |
limit | integer | — |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
This tool retrieves account data from Salesforce without modifying, creating, or deleting any information. It is categorized as Read. Severity is elevated to high because account data (company names, contact information, phone numbers, websites, ownership) represents sensitive business intelligence and customer relationship information that could be misused for reconnaissance, social engineering, unauthorized…
From the tool's definition Tool description states it "Search[es] Salesforce Accounts by name using SOSL full-text search" and "Returns matching accounts with Id, name, industry, billing city, phone, website, and owner." These are read-only retrieval operations with no modification or…
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Search Salesforce Accounts by name using SOSL full-text search. Returns matching accounts with Id, name, industry, billing city, phone, website, and owner. Use to find an Account ID before looking up contacts or opportunities. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Salesforce Marketing MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
sf_search_accounts accepts 2 parameters: q, limit. Required: q. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Salesforce Marketing MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for sf_search_accounts: 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 Salesforce Marketing. Nothing to install.
sf_search_accounts 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 sf_search_accounts 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 sf_search_accounts. 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.
sf_search_accounts is provided by the Salesforce Marketing MCP server (salesforce-marketing-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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