Find documents in a collection. Supports query, limit, skip, and sort options.
AI agents call find_documents to retrieve information from Google Services 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 data from a collection without creating, modifying, or deleting any documents. It is a standard read operation that produces no side effects. Even though the server context mentions write capabilities (execute_write, insert_document, etc.), this specific tool is limited to finding/querying documents, placing it firmly in the Read category with low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'find_documents' and description 'Find documents in a collection' clearly indicate a query/search operation. The supported options (query, limit, skip, sort) are all read-only filtering and retrieval parameters with no modification capabilities.
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Find documents in a collection. Supports query, limit, skip, and sort options. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Google Services MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Google Services MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for find_documents: 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 Google Services MCP Server. Nothing to install.
find_documents 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 find_documents 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 find_documents. 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.
find_documents is provided by the Google Services MCP Server MCP server (t4nm4ymittal/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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