Get OHLC candlestick data for a market
AI agents call get_candles to retrieve information from Mcp Afip without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves candlestick (OHLC: Open, High, Low, Close) market data, a read-only query operation. No data is created, modified, deleted, or executed. The only minor surprise is that this financial data retrieval tool exists on an AFIP (Argentine tax authority) server rather than a financial market data provider, but the functionality itself is purely Read.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_candles' and description 'Get OHLC candlestick data for a market' indicate a data retrieval operation that fetches historical or real-time market price data without modifying, creating, or executing anything.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_candles gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Mcp Afip, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_candles:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_candles": {}
}
} get_candles is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get OHLC candlestick data for a market. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Afip MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Afip MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_candles: 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 Afip. Nothing to install.
get_candles 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_candles 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_candles. 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_candles is provided by the Mcp Afip MCP server (codespar/mcp-dev-latam). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Mcp Afip, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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