searchIndustryClassification
Search and retrieve industry classification details for companies, including SIC codes, industry titles, and business information, with the FMP Industry Classification Search API.
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What searchIndustryClassification does on Financial Modeling Prep
AI agents call searchIndustryClassification to retrieve information from Financial Modeling Prep without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
cik | string | — | Central Index Key (CIK) |
symbol | string | — | Stock symbol |
sicCode | string | — | SIC code |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why searchIndustryClassification is rated Low
This tool performs a read-only query operation to retrieve public financial classification data (SIC codes, industry titles, business information). There are no side effects, no data modification, no code execution, and no financial transactions involved. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could retrieve information about many companies, but this causes no harm to systems or data integrity.
From the tool's definition The tool 'searchIndustryClassification' is described as 'Search and retrieve industry classification details for companies, including SIC codes, industry titles, and business information.' The verbs 'search' and 'retrieve' indicate data retrieval with no…
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The rule that runs searchIndustryClassification safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Financial Modeling Prep, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For searchIndustryClassification, this is the rule to start with:
searchIndustryClassification 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 Financial Modeling Prep, apply this rule, and every searchIndustryClassification call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about searchIndustryClassification
Search and retrieve industry classification details for companies, including SIC codes, industry titles, and business information, with the FMP Industry Classification Search API. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
searchIndustryClassification accepts 3 parameters: cik, symbol, sicCode. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Financial Modeling Prep MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for searchIndustryClassification: 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 Financial Modeling Prep. Nothing to install.
searchIndustryClassification 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 searchIndustryClassification 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 searchIndustryClassification. 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.
searchIndustryClassification is provided by the Financial Modeling Prep MCP server (cfocoder/financial-modeling-prep-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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