Search Ansible Galaxy roles by keyword, name, or author.
AI agents call search_galaxy_roles to retrieve information from AAP Enterprise 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 information from Ansible Galaxy without creating, modifying, deleting, executing code, or committing financial resources. It is a straightforward query operation that fetches existing data, making it a Read category risk with low severity.
From the tool's definition The tool description states it 'Search[es] Ansible Galaxy roles by keyword, name, or author.' The verb 'search' and the action of querying publicly available Ansible Galaxy metadata indicates a read-only operation with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access search_galaxy_roles gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and AAP Enterprise MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for search_galaxy_roles:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"search_galaxy_roles": {}
}
}search_galaxy_roles is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Search Ansible Galaxy roles by keyword, name, or author. It is categorised as a Read tool in the AAP Enterprise MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the AAP Enterprise MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_galaxy_roles: 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 AAP Enterprise MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_galaxy_roles 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_galaxy_roles 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_galaxy_roles. 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_galaxy_roles is provided by the AAP Enterprise MCP Server MCP server (sibilleb/aap-enterprise-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Deterministic rules across all 69 AAP Enterprise MCP Server tools. Per-identity grants. Full audit log. Live in minutes. Nothing to install.
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69 AAP Enterprise MCP Server tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 42,500+ MCP servers.