Search gov.uk content for guidance, policy documents, and other government information.
AI agents call search_govuk 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 government information without side effects. It performs a search query against gov.uk content, which is a standard Read operation. No data modification, code execution, deletion, or financial transactions are possible. The low severity reflects that misuse would only expose already-public information.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_govuk' and description 'Search gov.uk content for guidance, policy documents, and other government information' indicate a read-only query operation.
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Search gov.uk content for guidance, policy documents, and other government information. 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_govuk: 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_govuk 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_govuk 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_govuk. 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_govuk 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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