Search records using a text query across specified fields.
AI agents call smartsuite_search_records to retrieve information from SmartSuite MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The tool performs a search query across records, which is a retrieval operation with no side effects. No data is created, modified, deleted, or executed. This aligns with the 'Read' category definition: 'retrieves or queries data; no side effects (search, list, get, fetch)'. The severity is low because misuse would only expose data visibility issues, not enable destructive, financial, or code execution risks.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Search records using a text query across specified fields' — this is a read operation that queries and retrieves data without modification.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Search records using a text query across specified fields. It is categorised as a Read tool in the SmartSuite MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the SmartSuite MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for smartsuite_search_records: 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 SmartSuite MCP Server. Nothing to install.
smartsuite_search_records 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 smartsuite_search_records 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 smartsuite_search_records. 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.
smartsuite_search_records is provided by the SmartSuite MCP Server MCP server (smartsuitefoundry/smartsuite-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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