Search for courses in a given semester and subject
AI agents call search_courses to retrieve information from Georgia Tech 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 queries course schedule data from Georgia Tech's OSCAR system with no side effects. It falls squarely into the Read category as a search/query function. The severity is low because misuse would only expose public academic schedule information already available to legitimate users, with no risk of data modification, deletion, or financial impact.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_courses' and description 'Search for courses in a given semester and subject' indicate a query operation that retrieves course information without modifying data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Search for courses in a given semester and subject. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Georgia Tech MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Georgia Tech MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_courses: 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 Georgia Tech MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_courses 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_courses 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_courses. 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_courses is provided by the Georgia Tech MCP Server MCP server (wondermuttt/gtmcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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