crypto.coin-history
Historical market chart for a coin by CoinGecko id: time-series of price, market cap, and volume over the last N days (1-365) in USD or another vs-currency. Granularity is auto-selected by range (hourly for short windows, daily for long). For backtests, charts, and trend analysis.
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What crypto.coin-history does on Mcp
AI agents call crypto.coin-history to retrieve information from Mcp without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why crypto.coin-history is rated Low
This tool queries and retrieves historical cryptocurrency market data from CoinGecko without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It has no side effects on data or systems. The severity is low because even if misused by an agent, it only reads public market data and cannot cause harm, financial transactions, or system impact.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves 'historical market chart' data as 'time-series of price, market cap, and volume' with no modification capability stated. Explicitly described for 'backtests, charts, and trend analysis' — passive consumption use cases.
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The rule that runs crypto.coin-history safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Mcp, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For crypto.coin-history, this is the rule to start with:
crypto.coin-history 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 Mcp, apply this rule, and every crypto.coin-history call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about crypto.coin-history
Historical market chart for a coin by CoinGecko id: time-series of price, market cap, and volume over the last N days (1-365) in USD or another vs-currency. Granularity is auto-selected by range (hourly for short windows, daily for long). For backtests, charts, and trend analysis. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for crypto.coin-history: 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 Mcp. Nothing to install.
crypto.coin-history 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 crypto.coin-history 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 crypto.coin-history. 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.
crypto.coin-history is provided by the MCP server (@2sio/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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