ui_find_element

What ui_find_element does on TradingView MCP Server

AI agents call ui_find_element to retrieve information from TradingView 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 ui_find_element is rated Low

This tool only locates and returns information about UI element positions. It performs no side effects, creates no data modifications, executes no scripts, and triggers no external operations. It is purely informational, analogous to a DOM query. While it could theoretically be chained with other tools to enable harmful actions, the tool itself is read-only and presents minimal risk if misused in isolation.

From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Find[s] UI elements by text, aria-label, or CSS selector and return[s] their positions' — a query operation that retrieves element metadata without modifying state or triggering actions.

The rule that runs ui_find_element safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and TradingView MCP Server, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For ui_find_element, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "ui_find_element": {}
  }
}

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