Get businesses formed since a given date (YYYY-MM-DD). Useful for sales prospecting.
AI agents call get_new_formations to retrieve information from Freshfilings without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries historical business formation data from official state filings and returns results. It has no side effects, cannot modify or delete data, and does not execute external operations or commit financial obligations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could retrieve lists of newly formed businesses, which is at most a privacy or spam concern, not a systemic risk.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves 'businesses formed since a given date' with no modification or deletion capability. Description explicitly frames it as useful for 'sales prospecting', a passive research use case.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get businesses formed since a given date (YYYY-MM-DD). Useful for sales prospecting. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Freshfilings MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Freshfilings MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_new_formations: 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 Freshfilings. Nothing to install.
get_new_formations 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_new_formations 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_new_formations. 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_new_formations is provided by the Freshfilings MCP server (nrfischer10/freshfilings-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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