Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP). Premium endpoint, requires intraday interval.
AI agents call technicalIndicators_vwap 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.
VWAP is a pure data retrieval and calculation tool that fetches historical price and volume data to compute a technical indicator. It has no side effects, does not modify any data, does not execute external operations, and does not commit financial transactions. The 'Premium endpoint' designation refers only to API access tier, not to the nature of the operation.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'technicalIndicators_vwap' and description states it provides 'Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP)'. This is a technical analysis indicator that retrieves and calculates financial data with no modification, deletion, or execution of commands.
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Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP). Premium endpoint, requires intraday interval. 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 technicalIndicators_vwap: 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.
technicalIndicators_vwap 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 technicalIndicators_vwap 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 technicalIndicators_vwap. 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.
technicalIndicators_vwap 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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