Search the Cloudron App Store for available applications. Returns app details including name, description, version, icon URL, and install count. Results are sorted by relevance score. Empty query returns all available apps.
AI agents call cloudron_search_apps to retrieve information from Mcp Cloudron without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a read-only search operation against the Cloudron App Store, returning metadata about available applications. It retrieves information (name, description, version, icon URL, install count) without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. The operation is non-destructive and has no impact on system state or infrastructure.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'cloudron_search_apps' and description 'Search the Cloudron App Store for available applications. Returns app details...' indicates retrieval and querying of data with no side effects.
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Search the Cloudron App Store for available applications. Returns app details including name, description, version, icon URL, and install count. Results are sorted by relevance score. Empty query returns all available apps. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Cloudron MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Cloudron MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for cloudron_search_apps: 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 Mcp Cloudron. Nothing to install.
cloudron_search_apps 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 cloudron_search_apps 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 cloudron_search_apps. 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.
cloudron_search_apps is provided by the Mcp Cloudron MCP server (serenichron/mcp-cloudron). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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