volatility_for_entity
How volatile ONE product or vendor's price has been: a 0-100 volatility score derived from its recorded moves (frequency × average move size), plus change count, net % and last change. Honest gate: below a minimum recorded-change threshold it returns sufficient:false with a note, never a score in...
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What volatility_for_entity does on The Front Desk Review
AI agents call volatility_for_entity to retrieve information from The Front Desk Review 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
kind | string | — | Limit to 'hw' (hardware product) or 'sw' (software vendor). Omit to match either; a slug is resolved across both. |
slug | string | Yes | Product or vendor slug. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why volatility_for_entity is rated Low
This tool queries existing price history data to compute and return volatility statistics. It performs no write, execution, deletion, or financial operations. The worst misuse scenario is an agent requesting volatility data to inform a decision, which poses minimal risk. Classified as Read with low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves and analyzes historical price volatility data ("volatility score derived from its recorded moves", "change count, net %", "last change"). Returns calculated metrics and metadata with no modification of underlying data.
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The rule that runs volatility_for_entity safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and The Front Desk Review, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For volatility_for_entity, this is the rule to start with:
volatility_for_entity 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 The Front Desk Review, apply this rule, and every volatility_for_entity call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about volatility_for_entity
How volatile ONE product or vendor's price has been: a 0-100 volatility score derived from its recorded moves (frequency × average move size), plus change count, net % and last change. Honest gate: below a minimum recorded-change threshold it returns sufficient:false with a note, never a score invented from a single point. It is categorised as a Read tool in the The Front Desk Review MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
volatility_for_entity accepts 2 parameters: kind, slug. Required: slug. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the The Front Desk Review MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for volatility_for_entity: 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 The Front Desk Review. Nothing to install.
volatility_for_entity 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 volatility_for_entity 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 volatility_for_entity. 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.
volatility_for_entity is provided by the The Front Desk Review MCP server (https://mcp.frontdeskreview.com/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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