Find Anki notes in user decks
AI agents call find-notes to retrieve information from Anki Connect MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves or queries notes from Anki decks without creating, modifying, or deleting any data. It has no side effects and matches the 'Read' category definition of retrieving data through a search operation. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent can only discover what notes exist, not alter them. Severity is low due to limited user impact.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'find-notes' and description 'Find Anki notes in user decks' indicate a search/query operation with no modification of data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Find Anki notes in user decks. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Anki Connect MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Anki Connect MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for find-notes: 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 Anki Connect MCP Server. Nothing to install.
find-notes 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 find-notes 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 find-notes. 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.
find-notes is provided by the Anki Connect MCP Server MCP server (sergey-mamulchenko/anki-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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