AI agents call search_documentation to retrieve information from Superglue MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a read-only operation to search and retrieve documentation from a system. There are no side effects, data modification, code execution, deletion, or financial implications. It is a standard information retrieval function with minimal security risk.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_documentation' and description 'Searches a system' indicate a query operation that retrieves information without modifying data. The verb 'search' is explicitly listed in the Read category guidelines (search, list, get, fetch).
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access search_documentation gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Superglue MCP, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for search_documentation:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"search_documentation": {}
}
}search_documentation is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Searches a system. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Superglue MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Superglue MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_documentation: 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 Superglue MCP. Nothing to install.
search_documentation 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_documentation 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_documentation. 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_documentation is provided by the Superglue MCP server (superglue-ai/superglue). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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21 Superglue MCP tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 42,500+ MCP servers.