Retrieves US retail sales data.
AI agents call economicIndicators_retailSales 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 only retrieves publicly available economic indicator data (US retail sales). It performs a read-only query operation with no side effects, no code execution, no data modification, and no financial transactions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—worst case an agent retrieves more data than intended, which has no harmful consequences.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'economicIndicators_retailSales' and description 'Retrieves US retail sales data' indicate data retrieval with no modification capabilities.
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Retrieves US retail sales data. 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_retailSales: 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_retailSales 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_retailSales 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_retailSales. 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_retailSales 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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