Get a personalized market news briefing based on your validated edge library. Profiles your strategies, searches today's news for the instruments and setups you actually trade, and writes a concise digest connecting each headline to your specific book. Each news item includes a ↳ line tying it to...
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AI agents call get_briefed to retrieve information from VARRD — Statistically Validated Trading Edges + AI Research Engine without modifying any data. This is common in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows where the agent needs context before taking action. Because read operations don't change state, they are generally safe to allow without restrictions -- but you may still want rate limits to control API costs.
Even though get_briefed only reads data, uncontrolled read access can leak sensitive information or rack up API costs. An agent caught in a retry loop could make thousands of calls per minute. A rate limit gives you a safety net without blocking legitimate use.
Read-only tools are safe to allow by default. No rate limit needed unless you want to control costs.
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}See the full VARRD — Statistically Validated Trading Edges + AI Research Engine policy for all 9 tools.
These attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_briefed gives an agent. Each links to the full case and the policy that stops it:
Other read tools across the catalogue. The same approach applies to each: allow, with a rate cap to control cost.
Get a personalized market news briefing based on your validated edge library. Profiles your strategies, searches today's news for the instruments and setups you actually trade, and writes a concise digest connecting each headline to your specific book. Each news item includes a ↳ line tying it to your actual positions and edges (e.g. 'your ES momentum setups', 'your GC mean-reversion edge'). Requires at least 5 strong edges in your library. Costs credits.. It is categorised as a Read tool in the VARRD — Statistically Validated Trading Edges + AI Research Engine MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the VARRD — Statistically Validated Trading Edges + AI Research Engine MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_briefed: 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 VARRD — Statistically Validated Trading Edges + AI Research Engine. Nothing to install.
get_briefed 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 get_briefed 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 get_briefed. 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.
get_briefed is provided by the VARRD — Statistically Validated Trading Edges + AI Research Engine MCP server (https://app.varrd.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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