getShareFloat
Understand the liquidity and volatility of a stock with the FMP Company Share Float and Liquidity API. Access the total number of publicly traded shares for any company to make informed investment decisions.
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What getShareFloat does on Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server
AI agents call getShareFloat 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 getShareFloat is rated Low
getShareFloat is a pure query tool that retrieves publicly available share float data from a financial API. It performs no mutations, executions, deletions, or financial transactions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal — an agent calling this repeatedly cannot harm systems, delete data, move money, or cause irreversible changes. This is standard Read category behavior.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Access the total number of publicly traded shares' and 'Understand the liquidity and volatility' — functions that retrieve and query financial data without modifying it.
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The rule that runs getShareFloat 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 getShareFloat, this is the rule to start with:
getShareFloat 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 getShareFloat call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about getShareFloat
Understand the liquidity and volatility of a stock with the FMP Company Share Float and Liquidity API. Access the total number of publicly traded shares for any company to make informed investment decisions. 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 getShareFloat: 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.
getShareFloat 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 getShareFloat 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 getShareFloat. 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.
getShareFloat 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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