Get current positions from stock and/or futures accounts
AI agents call get_positions to retrieve information from Shioaji MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves account position information without creating, modifying, or executing any trades. It is a read-only query operation that returns current state information from trading accounts. While operating in a financial context, the tool itself performs no financial transactions, fund movements, or irreversible actions—it only queries and returns existing data.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_positions' and description 'Get current positions from stock and/or futures accounts' indicate data retrieval with no modification or execution of trades.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get current positions from stock and/or futures accounts. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Shioaji MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Shioaji MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_positions: 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 Shioaji MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_positions 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_positions 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_positions. 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_positions is provided by the Shioaji MCP Server MCP server (offbeat-studio/shioaji-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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