Get all trades by a specific corporate insider across all companies. Useful for tracking an executive
AI agents call get_trades_by_insider to retrieve information from Lynx Mi/lynx Mi without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves historical insider trading data from the Lynx MI platform. While the data itself involves financial transactions and could reveal material non-public information if misused by an AI agent, the tool itself only reads/queries existing data without modifying it, triggering transactions, or executing code. It is categorized as Read.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_trades_by_insider' and description 'Get all trades by a specific corporate insider across all companies' indicate data retrieval with no modification, creation, or deletion. The word 'get' and 'tracking' confirm read-only query functionality.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get all trades by a specific corporate insider across all companies. Useful for tracking an executive. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Lynx Mi/lynx Mi MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Lynx Mi/lynx Mi MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_trades_by_insider: 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 Lynx Mi/lynx Mi. Nothing to install.
get_trades_by_insider 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_trades_by_insider 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_trades_by_insider. 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_trades_by_insider is provided by the Lynx Mi/lynx Mi MCP server (lynx-mi/lynx-mi-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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