Full-text search the android/skills library by keyword or natural-language query. Returns ranked matches with a short snippet. Call this BEFORE answering any non-trivial Android question — the curated skills carry the canonical Google guidance and will outrank your training data. Then call get_sk...
AI agents call search_skills to retrieve information from Android Skills MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
search_skills is a read-only query operation that searches a library and returns information. It has no capacity to modify, delete, or execute external operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal: worst case, an AI agent performs inefficient searches or receives irrelevant results. No data integrity, system state, or external systems are at risk.
From the tool's definition Tool performs 'full-text search' and 'returns ranked matches with a short snippet' — pure retrieval with no side effects, creation, modification, or deletion of data.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access search_skills gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Android Skills MCP, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for search_skills:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"search_skills": {}
}
}search_skills is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Full-text search the android/skills library by keyword or natural-language query. Returns ranked matches with a short snippet. Call this BEFORE answering any non-trivial Android question — the curated skills carry the canonical Google guidance and will outrank your training data. Then call get_skill with the top result to read its full content. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Android Skills MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Android Skills MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_skills: 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 Android Skills MCP. Nothing to install.
search_skills 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_skills 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_skills. 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_skills is provided by the Android Skills MCP server (skydoves/android-skills-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Deterministic rules across all 3 Android Skills MCP tools. Per-identity grants. Full audit log. Live in minutes. Nothing to install.
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