Congressional stock trading disclosures.
AI agents call get_politician_trades to retrieve information from Momentum without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves historical congressional trading disclosures, which are public records. It has no side effects, does not modify data, does not execute code or external operations, and does not move money. The action is informational read-only access to published government disclosures, making it a Read category tool with low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_politician_trades' and description 'Congressional stock trading disclosures' indicate retrieval of publicly available disclosure data. No mutations, deletions, code execution, or financial transactions occur.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_politician_trades gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Momentum, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_politician_trades:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_politician_trades": {}
}
}get_politician_trades is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Congressional stock trading disclosures. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Momentum MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Momentum MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_politician_trades: 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 Momentum. Nothing to install.
get_politician_trades 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_politician_trades 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_politician_trades. 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_politician_trades is provided by the Momentum MCP server (mphinance/momentum-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Momentum, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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