Tool mirror of trading://system/health resource for universal client compatibility.
AI agents call resource_system_health_tool to retrieve information from Alpaca MCP Gold Standard without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves system health status information. It performs no side effects, does not execute code or commands, does not modify data, and does not move money. It is a diagnostic query tool analogous to a status check endpoint. Despite the financial trading context of the server, this specific tool is purely informational and falls into the Read category with low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'resource_system_health_tool' and description 'Tool mirror of trading://system/health resource for universal client compatibility' indicate a read-only query of system health status.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Tool mirror of trading://system/health resource for universal client compatibility. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Alpaca MCP Gold Standard MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Alpaca MCP Gold Standard MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for resource_system_health_tool: 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 Alpaca MCP Gold Standard. Nothing to install.
resource_system_health_tool 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 resource_system_health_tool 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 resource_system_health_tool. 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.
resource_system_health_tool is provided by the Alpaca MCP Gold Standard MCP server (joravetz/alpaca-mcp-gold). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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