Search clipboard history by text pattern or regex
AI agents call search_clipboard to retrieve information from Maccy Clipboard MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool only searches and retrieves clipboard history data. It does not create, modify, delete, or execute anything. The search operation is a read-only query against stored clipboard history.
From the tool's definition Tool performs 'Search clipboard history by text pattern or regex' — a query operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of external commands. It retrieves historical clipboard data without side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access search_clipboard gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Maccy Clipboard MCP, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for search_clipboard:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"search_clipboard": {}
}
}search_clipboard is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Search clipboard history by text pattern or regex. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Maccy Clipboard MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Maccy Clipboard MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_clipboard: 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 Maccy Clipboard MCP. Nothing to install.
search_clipboard 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_clipboard 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_clipboard. 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_clipboard is provided by the Maccy Clipboard MCP server (vlad-ds/maccy-clipboard-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Maccy Clipboard MCP, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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