labor.wages

Occupational employment + wages from BLS OEWS by SOC code, nationally or by US state. Pass soc (e.g. 15-1252 Software Developers) + optional 2-letter state. Returns employment, hourly mean, and annual mean + 10th/25th/median/75th/90th-percentile wages (latest survey year). Authoritative ground-tr...

Server Mcp @2sio/mcp
Category Read
Risk class Low
Parameters 00 required

What labor.wages does on Mcp

AI agents call labor.wages to retrieve information from Mcp without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why labor.wages needs a policy

This tool retrieves and queries occupational wage statistics from a public database (Bureau of Labor Statistics). It performs data lookup and retrieval only, with no side effects, modifications, or irreversible actions. The read-only nature and public-domain source present minimal security risk.

From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Returns employment, hourly mean, and annual mean + 10th/25th/median/75th/90th-percentile wages' from BLS OEWS data. The operations are queries and retrievals ('Pass soc...

Questions about labor.wages

What does the labor.wages tool do? +

Occupational employment + wages from BLS OEWS by SOC code, nationally or by US state. Pass soc (e.g. 15-1252 Software Developers) + optional 2-letter state. Returns employment, hourly mean, and annual mean + 10th/25th/median/75th/90th-percentile wages (latest survey year). Authoritative ground-truth wages for comp benchmarking. Public-domain. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.

How do I enforce a policy on labor.wages? +

Register the MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for labor.wages: 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.

What risk level is labor.wages? +

labor.wages is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.

Can I rate-limit labor.wages? +

Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the labor.wages 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.

How do I block labor.wages completely? +

Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for labor.wages. 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.

What MCP server provides labor.wages? +

labor.wages 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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