LiteLLM issue 48170: keyword MCP search skips key counters

Evidence record

Reporter-provided reproduction of missing RPM enforcement and spend logging for keyword ranking.

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Claim-level citations (3)

• supportsLiteLLM MCP keyword search was reported to bypass virtual-key request limits and audit: In the reported LiteLLM configuration, rpm_limit 4 allowed five to six keyword tool-search requests without spend logs, while direct MCP calls were limited and semantic-ranking searches used enforced embedding accounting.

  Issue 48170, Actual behavior and Steps to reproduce

• supportsLiteLLM MCP keyword search was reported to bypass virtual-key request limits and audit: The issue reporter says repeated keyword mcp_tool_search calls succeeded past rpm_limit=4 while direct tools were rate limited, and expected spend logs were missing for keyword requests.

  Steps to reproduce; Expected vs actual results

• supportsLiteLLM MCP keyword search was reported to bypass virtual-key request limits and audit: The report contrasts keyword-search and embedding-backed search code paths; it does not establish invocation of an unauthorized out-of-scope tool.

  Implementation diagnosis and limitations