hippo_document_search

What hippo_document_search does on Verimem

AI agents call hippo_document_search to retrieve information from Verimem without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why hippo_document_search is rated Low

This tool retrieves information through a search query without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a passive read operation with no side effects. Low severity because search operations have minimal blast radius even if misused, as they cannot alter system state or access unauthorized data directly (assuming appropriate access controls are in place).

From the tool's definition Tool is a 'search' operation performing 'substring (lexical, case-insensitive) search over ingested' content. No modification, deletion, or execution is performed—only querying/retrieval of data.

The rule that runs hippo_document_search safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Verimem, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For hippo_document_search, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "hippo_document_search": {}
  }
}

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