Retrieves the effective federal funds rate.
AI agents call economicIndicators_federalFundsRate to retrieve information from MCP Avantage 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 (federal funds rate) from a financial data API. It performs a read-only query with no side effects—it does not create, modify, delete, or execute any operations. The federal funds rate is publicly available economic indicator data.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'economicIndicators_federalFundsRate' and description 'Retrieves the effective federal funds rate' indicate a data retrieval operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of external commands.
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Retrieves the effective federal funds rate. It is categorised as a Read tool in the MCP Avantage MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP Avantage MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for economicIndicators_federalFundsRate: 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 MCP Avantage. Nothing to install.
economicIndicators_federalFundsRate 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 economicIndicators_federalFundsRate 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 economicIndicators_federalFundsRate. 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.
economicIndicators_federalFundsRate is provided by the MCP Avantage MCP server (missionsquad/mcp-avantage). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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