get_financial_statement
Get financial statement for a given ticker symbol
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What get_financial_statement does on Yahoo Finance MCP Server
AI agents call get_financial_statement to retrieve information from Yahoo Finance MCP Server without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why get_financial_statement is rated Low
This tool retrieves historical financial data (balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements) from Yahoo Finance for a specified company ticker. It performs a query operation that does not modify, delete, or execute any actions—it only returns existing financial information. There is no capability to alter data, execute code, or commit financial transactions.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_financial_statement' and description 'Get financial statement for a given ticker symbol' indicate a retrieval operation with no side effects.
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The rule that runs get_financial_statement safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Yahoo Finance MCP Server, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For get_financial_statement, this is the rule to start with:
get_financial_statement is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Yahoo Finance MCP Server, apply this rule, and every get_financial_statement call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about get_financial_statement
Get financial statement for a given ticker symbol. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Yahoo Finance MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Yahoo Finance MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_financial_statement: 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 Yahoo Finance MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_financial_statement 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 get_financial_statement 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 get_financial_statement. 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.
get_financial_statement is provided by the Yahoo Finance MCP Server MCP server (16coffee/finance-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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