getStockGradeSummary
Quickly access an overall view of analyst ratings with the FMP Grades Summary API. This API provides a consolidated summary of market sentiment for individual stock symbols, including the total number of strong buy, buy, hold, sell, and strong sell ratings. Understand the overall consensus on a s...
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What getStockGradeSummary does on Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server
AI agents call getStockGradeSummary 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 getStockGradeSummary is rated Low
This tool queries and returns existing analyst rating data (strong buy, buy, hold, sell, strong sell consensus). It is a read-only operation that retrieves market sentiment information without side effects, data modification, or external execution. The low severity reflects minimal blast radius if misused by an AI agent — it can only fetch public financial market sentiment data.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'getStockGradeSummary' and description state it 'provides a consolidated summary' and 'access an overall view of analyst ratings' — purely retrieval operations with no modification, deletion, or execution capability.
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The rule that runs getStockGradeSummary 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 getStockGradeSummary, this is the rule to start with:
getStockGradeSummary 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 getStockGradeSummary call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about getStockGradeSummary
Quickly access an overall view of analyst ratings with the FMP Grades Summary API. This API provides a consolidated summary of market sentiment for individual stock symbols, including the total number of strong buy, buy, hold, sell, and strong sell ratings. Understand the overall consensus on a stock’s outlook with just a few data points. 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 getStockGradeSummary: 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.
getStockGradeSummary 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 getStockGradeSummary 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 getStockGradeSummary. 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.
getStockGradeSummary 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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