getCOTReports
Access comprehensive Commitment of Traders (COT) reports with the FMP COT Report API. This API provides detailed information about long and short positions across various sectors, helping you assess market sentiment and track positions in commodities, indices, and financial instruments.
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What getCOTReports does on Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server
AI agents call getCOTReports to retrieve information from Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why getCOTReports is rated Low
getCOTReports retrieves and queries historical COT report data from the FMP API. It performs no side effects, creates no data, executes no operations, deletes nothing, and moves no funds. The tool is purely informational, allowing users to assess market sentiment through read-only access to publicly available regulatory filings.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Access comprehensive Commitment of Traders (COT) reports' and 'provides detailed information about long and short positions' — language indicates data retrieval and analysis only.
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The rule that runs getCOTReports safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For getCOTReports, this is the rule to start with:
getCOTReports 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 Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server, apply this rule, and every getCOTReports call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about getCOTReports
Access comprehensive Commitment of Traders (COT) reports with the FMP COT Report API. This API provides detailed information about long and short positions across various sectors, helping you assess market sentiment and track positions in commodities, indices, and financial instruments. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getCOTReports: 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 Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server. Nothing to install.
getCOTReports 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 getCOTReports 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 getCOTReports. 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.
getCOTReports is provided by the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server MCP server (financial-modeling-prep-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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