AI agents call search_people to retrieve information from LinkedIn Intelligence MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
search_people retrieves profile information without modifying or deleting data. However, severity is medium rather than low due to potential privacy implications of bulk LinkedIn profile searching—the tool could be used to conduct surveillance, build target lists, or harvest contact information at scale, particularly in combination with the 'batch_get_profiles' and 'messaging' capabilities also present on this…
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_people' combined with server context describing 'profile research' and 'data layer' access indicates data retrieval functionality.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access search_people gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and LinkedIn Intelligence MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for search_people:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"search_people": {}
}
}search_people is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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search_people. It is categorised as a Read tool in the LinkedIn Intelligence MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the LinkedIn Intelligence MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_people: 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 LinkedIn Intelligence MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_people 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_people 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_people. 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_people is provided by the LinkedIn Intelligence MCP Server MCP server (southleft/linkedin-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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87 LinkedIn Intelligence MCP Server tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 42,500+ MCP servers.