bankofcanada.rates.inflation
Get Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation measures published by the Bank of Canada Valet API. Returns four monthly series as year-over-year percentage changes: total_cpi_yoy_pct (all-items CPI), core_cpi_yoy_pct (CPI excluding food and energy), cpiw_yoy_pct (CPIW — basket-weight-adjusted ...
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What bankofcanada.rates.inflation does on Apibase
AI agents call bankofcanada.rates.inflation to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
recent | integer | — | Number of most-recent monthly observations to return (default 12 = one year). CPI data is published monthly by Statistics Canada. Ignored when start_date or end |
end_date | string | — | End date for historical range in YYYY-MM-DD format (e.g. "2026-05-01"). Defaults to the most recent available month. |
start_date | string | — | Start date for historical range in YYYY-MM-DD format (e.g. "2020-01-01"). Monthly data — use the first of the month. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why bankofcanada.rates.inflation is rated Low
Retrieves published economic data with no side effects or modifications.
From the tool's definition Get Canadian Consumer Price Index inflation measures, returns monthly series
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The rule that runs bankofcanada.rates.inflation safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For bankofcanada.rates.inflation, this is the rule to start with:
bankofcanada.rates.inflation 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 Apibase, apply this rule, and every bankofcanada.rates.inflation call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about bankofcanada.rates.inflation
Get Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation measures published by the Bank of Canada Valet API. Returns four monthly series as year-over-year percentage changes: total_cpi_yoy_pct (all-items CPI), core_cpi_yoy_pct (CPI excluding food and energy), cpiw_yoy_pct (CPIW — basket-weight-adjusted measure), cpi_median_yoy_pct (median year-over-year CPI change). Default: 12 most-recent monthly observations (one year). Use start_date/end_date for historical ranges. These are the Bank of Canada's key inflation tracking measures, used to assess achievement of the 2% inflation target. Source: Bank of Canada, www.bankofcanada.ca — open data, attribution required. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
bankofcanada.rates.inflation accepts 3 parameters: recent, end_date, start_date. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for bankofcanada.rates.inflation: 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 Apibase. Nothing to install.
bankofcanada.rates.inflation 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 bankofcanada.rates.inflation 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 bankofcanada.rates.inflation. 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.
bankofcanada.rates.inflation is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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