phone.telnyx.balance
Read current Telnyx account balance, available credit, currency, pending charges, and credit limit. Useful for cost monitoring before placing high-volume sends (Telnyx)
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What phone.telnyx.balance does on Apibase
AI agents call phone.telnyx.balance 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
refresh | boolean | — | Set to true to bypass the 30-second cache and fetch a fresh balance from Telnyx. Default false. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why phone.telnyx.balance is rated Low
Retrieves financial account information without modifying data or executing operations.
From the tool's definition Read current Telnyx account balance, available credit, currency, pending charges, credit limit.
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The rule that runs phone.telnyx.balance 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 phone.telnyx.balance, this is the rule to start with:
phone.telnyx.balance 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 phone.telnyx.balance call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about phone.telnyx.balance
Read current Telnyx account balance, available credit, currency, pending charges, and credit limit. Useful for cost monitoring before placing high-volume sends (Telnyx). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
phone.telnyx.balance accepts 1 parameter: refresh. 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 phone.telnyx.balance: 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.
phone.telnyx.balance 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 phone.telnyx.balance 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 phone.telnyx.balance. 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.
phone.telnyx.balance 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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