search_people
AI agents call search_people to retrieve information from LinkedIn MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool searches for people on LinkedIn, which is a query/retrieval operation with no side effects. However, the medium severity reflects privacy concerns inherent in scraping personal profile data at scale—unauthorized bulk retrieval of LinkedIn user information could violate terms of service and expose sensitive personal/professional data, creating reputational or legal risk if misused by an AI agent without…
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_people' combined with sibling tools like 'get_company_employees', 'get_company_profile', and 'get_feed' which are clearly retrieval operations; no modification, deletion, or execution verbs present.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
search_people. It is categorised as a Read tool in the LinkedIn MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the LinkedIn 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 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 MCP Server MCP server (stickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.