stock_return
Calculate total stock return including price change and dividends.
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What stock_return does on GadgetHumans API Hub
AI agents call stock_return to retrieve information from GadgetHumans API Hub without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why stock_return is rated Low
This tool performs a computational analysis of historical stock performance metrics (price change and dividend data). It reads input parameters and returns calculated results with no side effects, no data modification, no transactions, and no financial movements. Despite the Financial category being available, this is clearly a Read operation—it queries/calculates, not executes payments or trades.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'stock_return' with description 'Calculate total stock return including price change and dividends' indicates a pure calculation/query operation that retrieves or processes financial data without executing transactions, modifying records, or…
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The rule that runs stock_return safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and GadgetHumans API Hub, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For stock_return, this is the rule to start with:
stock_return 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 GadgetHumans API Hub, apply this rule, and every stock_return call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about stock_return
Calculate total stock return including price change and dividends. It is categorised as a Read tool in the GadgetHumans API Hub MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the GadgetHumans API Hub MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for stock_return: 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 GadgetHumans API Hub. Nothing to install.
stock_return 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 stock_return 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 stock_return. 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.
stock_return is provided by the GadgetHumans API Hub MCP server (pypi:gadgethumans-api-hub-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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