Returns the monthly Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade data of the United States
AI agents call get_retail_sales to retrieve information from AlphaVantage MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves historical economic data (US retail sales statistics) from a financial data API. It performs a read-only query with no side effects, does not execute code or commands, does not modify data, and does not involve financial transactions. The low severity reflects minimal risk even if misused by an agent, as it only exposes public economic data.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_retail_sales' and description 'Returns the monthly Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade data of the United States' indicate a data retrieval operation with no modification or execution capability.
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Returns the monthly Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade data of the United States. It is categorised as a Read tool in the AlphaVantage MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the AlphaVantage MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_retail_sales: 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 AlphaVantage MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_retail_sales 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 get_retail_sales 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 get_retail_sales. 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.
get_retail_sales is provided by the AlphaVantage MCP Server MCP server (lifejwang11/alphavantage-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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