Hybrid search for AEM Assets operations with intent weighting, synonym expansion, and optional semantic reranking.
AI agents call search_aem_assets_api to retrieve information from Adobe Experience Assets Dev MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The tool performs search queries against AEM Assets, which is a read-only operation that retrieves information without side effects. No data creation, modification, deletion, or external execution is indicated. Search, filtering, and semantic analysis are characteristic Read operations.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_aem_assets_api' and description describe a search operation with 'intent weighting, synonym expansion, and optional semantic reranking' — activities that retrieve and query data without modification or deletion.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Hybrid search for AEM Assets operations with intent weighting, synonym expansion, and optional semantic reranking. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Adobe Experience Assets Dev MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Adobe Experience Assets Dev MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_aem_assets_api: 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 Adobe Experience Assets Dev MCP. Nothing to install.
search_aem_assets_api 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_aem_assets_api 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_aem_assets_api. 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_aem_assets_api is provided by the Adobe Experience Assets Dev MCP server (stubbedev/adobe-experience-dev-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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