treasury_cash_balance
Daily operating cash balance of the US Treasury (the Treasury General Account, the government's checking account at the Fed), from the Daily Treasury Statement. Values are in millions of dollars.
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What treasury_cash_balance does on Livedatalink
AI agents call treasury_cash_balance to retrieve information from Livedatalink without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
limit | number | — | Max rows to return. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why treasury_cash_balance is rated Low
This tool queries and returns historical financial data (US Treasury cash balances) that are already public and published by the US government. It performs a read-only data retrieval with no side effects, modifications, or execution of external operations. The severity is low because misuse cannot alter government systems or financial obligations—it only exposes already-public information.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves 'Daily operating cash balance of the US Treasury' from public Daily Treasury Statement data.
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The rule that runs treasury_cash_balance safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Livedatalink, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For treasury_cash_balance, this is the rule to start with:
treasury_cash_balance 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 Livedatalink, apply this rule, and every treasury_cash_balance call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about treasury_cash_balance
Daily operating cash balance of the US Treasury (the Treasury General Account, the government's checking account at the Fed), from the Daily Treasury Statement. Values are in millions of dollars. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Livedatalink MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
treasury_cash_balance accepts 1 parameter: limit. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Livedatalink MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for treasury_cash_balance: 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 Livedatalink. Nothing to install.
treasury_cash_balance 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 treasury_cash_balance 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 treasury_cash_balance. 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.
treasury_cash_balance is provided by the Livedatalink MCP server (https://livedatalink.ai/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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