Search The Agent Times articles by keyword. Searches headlines, summaries, and tags. Returns matching articles with full context and sources.
AI agents call search_articles to retrieve information from The Agent Times MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a search query against articles and returns results. It retrieves existing data without creating, modifying, deleting, executing code, or committing financial actions. The operation is idempotent and read-only.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Search The Agent Times articles by keyword' and 'Returns matching articles with full context and sources.' The verb 'search' and the action of retrieving and returning articles indicate a data retrieval operation with no side effects…
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Search The Agent Times articles by keyword. Searches headlines, summaries, and tags. Returns matching articles with full context and sources. It is categorised as a Read tool in the The Agent Times MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the The Agent Times MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_articles: 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 The Agent Times MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_articles 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_articles 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_articles. 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_articles is provided by the The Agent Times MCP Server MCP server (theagenttimes/tat-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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