AI agents call find_api_usage_examples to retrieve information from Search Tools 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 and searches for API usage examples within repositories—a read-only operation with no side effects. No data is modified, deleted, or executed. The empty description is consistent with a straightforward search utility. Confidence is high despite missing description because the tool name and server context clearly indicate data retrieval.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'find_api_usage_examples' indicates retrieval of existing code examples. Server description emphasizes 'search across repositories' and 'context-aware keyword searches' with no mention of modification or deletion capabilities.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access find_api_usage_examples gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Search Tools MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for find_api_usage_examples:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"find_api_usage_examples": {}
}
}find_api_usage_examples is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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find_api_usage_examples. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Search Tools MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Search Tools MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for find_api_usage_examples: 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 Search Tools MCP Server. Nothing to install.
find_api_usage_examples 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_api_usage_examples 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_api_usage_examples. 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_api_usage_examples is provided by the Search Tools MCP Server MCP server (voxmenthe/search-tools-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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21 Search Tools MCP Server tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 42,500+ MCP servers.