AI agents call search to retrieve information from Ida Domain without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Despite the empty description creating some uncertainty, the context strongly suggests this tool retrieves or queries data from IDA Pro's database. It is grouped with other non-destructive analysis tools and fits the 'Read' pattern of searching/querying reverse engineering artifacts. No evidence suggests it modifies, executes, deletes, or creates data.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'search' on a reverse engineering platform (IDA Pro). The sibling tools (analyze_funcs, analyze_strings, basic_blocks, callees, callers, callgraph, cursor_addr, cursor_func) are all analysis/query operations with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access search gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Ida Domain, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for search:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"search": {}
}
}search is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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search. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Ida Domain MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Ida Domain MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search: 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 Ida Domain. Nothing to install.
search 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 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. 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 is provided by the Ida Domain MCP server (xxyyue/ida_domain_mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Ida Domain, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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