Recent news articles about a specific US-listed company. Pass ticker and optionally a from/to date window (YYYY-MM-DD; defaults to the last 14 days); returns headlines with source, summary, URL, image, related symbol, category, and publish time (newest first). Use it to catch up on what is being ...
AI agents call stocks.company-news 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.
This is a straightforward news aggregation and query tool that retrieves publicly available financial information about US-listed companies. It has no capability to modify data, execute external operations, destroy information, or commit financial obligations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal - an agent could retrieve irrelevant news articles, but this poses no security, operational, or financial risk.
From the tool's definition The tool returns headlines, summaries, URLs, images, and metadata about company news - it 'retrieves' and 'returns' aggregated news articles with no side effects mentioned.
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Recent news articles about a specific US-listed company. Pass ticker and optionally a from/to date window (YYYY-MM-DD; defaults to the last 14 days); returns headlines with source, summary, URL, image, related symbol, category, and publish time (newest first). Use it to catch up on what is being written about a company. News aggregated by Finnhub. 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 stocks.company-news: 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.
stocks.company-news 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 stocks.company-news 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 stocks.company-news. 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.
stocks.company-news 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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