getFinancialReportsDates
Access the latest financial reports dates for publicly traded companies with the FMP Financial Reports Dates API. Track key financial metrics, including revenue, earnings, and cash flow, to stay informed about a company
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What getFinancialReportsDates does on Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server
AI agents call getFinancialReportsDates 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 getFinancialReportsDates is rated Low
This tool fetches and returns publicly available financial report dates and metrics for publicly traded companies. It has no side effects, does not create, modify, or delete data, and does not execute code or trigger financial transactions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could retrieve more data than intended, but no harm results from over-querying a read-only API.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Access the latest financial reports dates' and 'Track key financial metrics' — these are retrieval operations that query and present existing financial data without modifying, deleting, or executing external operations.
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The rule that runs getFinancialReportsDates 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 getFinancialReportsDates, this is the rule to start with:
getFinancialReportsDates 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 getFinancialReportsDates call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about getFinancialReportsDates
Access the latest financial reports dates for publicly traded companies with the FMP Financial Reports Dates API. Track key financial metrics, including revenue, earnings, and cash flow, to stay informed about a company. 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 getFinancialReportsDates: 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.
getFinancialReportsDates 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 getFinancialReportsDates 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 getFinancialReportsDates. 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.
getFinancialReportsDates 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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