Search for food establishments and their hygiene ratings.
AI agents call search_food_establishments to retrieve information from GovUK 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 publicly available information about food establishments and their hygiene ratings. It has no capability to modify, delete, or trigger external actions. The operation is read-only, consistent with other tools on this UK government data server (find_courts, find_gp_surgeries, get_company, etc.) which all perform lookups and queries.
From the tool's definition The tool 'search_food_establishments' is explicitly described as performing a search and retrieval operation: 'Search for food establishments and their hygiene ratings.' The verb 'search' and the focus on retrieving existing hygiene rating data indicates this…
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Search for food establishments and their hygiene ratings. It is categorised as a Read tool in the GovUK MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the GovUK MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_food_establishments: 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 GovUK MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_food_establishments 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_food_establishments 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_food_establishments. 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_food_establishments is provided by the GovUK MCP Server MCP server (stealth-labs-ltd/govuk-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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