searchPressReleases
Search for company press releases with the FMP Search Press Releases API. Find specific corporate announcements and updates by entering a stock symbol or company name.
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What searchPressReleases does on Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server
AI agents call searchPressReleases 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 searchPressReleases is rated Low
This tool retrieves and queries publicly available press release data via the FMP API. It has no side effects, does not modify data, execute code, delete information, or commit financial transactions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal — returning irrelevant or excessive search results poses negligible risk to systems or financial obligations.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Search for company press releases' and 'Find specific corporate announcements' — these are retrieval operations with no modification or execution of external commands. The verb 'search' and 'find' indicate read-only data queries.
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The rule that runs searchPressReleases 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 searchPressReleases, this is the rule to start with:
searchPressReleases 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 searchPressReleases call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about searchPressReleases
Search for company press releases with the FMP Search Press Releases API. Find specific corporate announcements and updates by entering a stock symbol or company name. 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 searchPressReleases: 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.
searchPressReleases 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 searchPressReleases 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 searchPressReleases. 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.
searchPressReleases 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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