Search your Bear notes for words or phrases. The search looks across note titles, body content, and OCR text in attached images and PDFs, returning matching notes ranked by relevance with a snippet of the matching context — so you can see what matched without opening the note. For best results, s...
AI agents call bear-search-notes to retrieve information from Bear Notes without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries existing data (notes) without any side effects. It does not create, modify, delete, or execute anything. The search functionality is a classic read-only operation with minimal risk even if misused—worst case an agent performs unnecessary searches. No financial, destructive, or code execution implications.
From the tool's definition Tool performs search queries across note titles, body content, and OCR text, returning matching notes with snippets. No modification, deletion, or execution capability is described.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access bear-search-notes gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Bear Notes, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for bear-search-notes:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"bear-search-notes": {}
}
}bear-search-notes is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Search your Bear notes for words or phrases. The search looks across note titles, body content, and OCR text in attached images and PDFs, returning matching notes ranked by relevance with a snippet of the matching context — so you can see what matched without opening the note. For best results, search with a phrase or several words from what you. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Bear Notes MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Bear Notes MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for bear-search-notes: 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 Bear Notes. Nothing to install.
bear-search-notes 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 bear-search-notes 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 bear-search-notes. 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.
bear-search-notes is provided by the Bear Notes MCP server (vasylenko/bear-notes-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Deterministic rules across all 13 Bear Notes tools. Per-identity grants. Full audit log. Live in minutes. Nothing to install.
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13 Bear Notes tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 42,500+ MCP servers.