Low Risk

get-daily-papers

Get the list of daily papers curated by Hugging Face

How to control get-daily-papers ↓

AI agents call get-daily-papers to retrieve information from Hugging Face MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Low Risk

This tool retrieves a curated list of papers—a pure data query with no ability to modify, execute, delete, or perform financial operations. The read-only constraint of the parent server confirms this classification. Severity is low because even if misused, the tool merely returns public information with no blast radius or side effects.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'get-daily-papers' and description 'Get the list of daily papers curated by Hugging Face' indicate a retrieval operation with no side effects. Server is explicitly described as providing 'read-only access' to Hugging Face Hub APIs.

Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get-daily-papers gives an agent:

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Hugging Face MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get-daily-papers:

policy.json
{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "get-daily-papers": {}
  }
}

get-daily-papers is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.

  1. Create a free account and register Hugging Face MCP Server — nothing to install.
  2. Add this policy — paste it, or build it visually.
  3. Point your MCP client (Claude, Cursor, anything) at your gateway URL.
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What does the get-daily-papers tool do? +

Get the list of daily papers curated by Hugging Face. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Hugging Face MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.

How do I enforce a policy on get-daily-papers? +

Register the Hugging Face MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get-daily-papers: 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 Hugging Face MCP Server. Nothing to install.

What risk level is get-daily-papers? +

get-daily-papers is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.

Can I rate-limit get-daily-papers? +

Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the get-daily-papers 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.

How do I block get-daily-papers completely? +

Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for get-daily-papers. 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.

What MCP server provides get-daily-papers? +

get-daily-papers is provided by the Hugging Face MCP Server MCP server (shreyaskarnik/huggingface-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.

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