AI agents call calculate_financial_runway to retrieve information from Getalife without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This is a read-only analytical tool that performs calculations on user financial data to provide insights. It retrieves or derives information (survival months calculation) without creating, modifying, deleting, or moving money. No side effects or irreversible actions occur.
From the tool's definition Calculates Financial Runway based on existing savings and monthly expenses to show survival months. The tool performs mathematical analysis on user-provided financial data and returns informational output.
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Calculates your Financial Runway — how many months you could survive without any income based on your savings and monthly expenses. Also shows a. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Getalife MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Getalife MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for calculate_financial_runway: 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 Getalife. Nothing to install.
calculate_financial_runway 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 calculate_financial_runway 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 calculate_financial_runway. 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.
calculate_financial_runway is provided by the Getalife MCP server (narazgul/mcp-server-getalife). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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