Search across Trello content (boards, cards, members, organizations). Use this to find specific items by keywords or phrases.
AI agents call search to retrieve information from Trello MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The search tool queries and retrieves data from Trello without creating, modifying, or deleting anything. It is a read-only operation that returns matching results based on keywords. The low severity reflects minimal risk even if misused—a search cannot harm data integrity or cause unintended consequences beyond exposing information already accessible to the authenticated user.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'search' and description states 'Search across Trello content (boards, cards, members, organizations). Use this to find specific items by keywords or phrases.' This is a retrieval operation with no data modification or side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Search across Trello content (boards, cards, members, organizations). Use this to find specific items by keywords or phrases. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Trello MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Trello MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search: 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 Trello MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search 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 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. 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 is provided by the Trello MCP Server MCP server (semblancelabs/trello-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Every MCP server has a record like this.
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