buy_stock_market
Places a market buy order for a stock.
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What buy_stock_market does on Open Stocks MCP
AI agents use buy_stock_market to commit financial operations through Open Stocks MCP, usually the final step of a payment, billing, or trading workflow. A call moves real money.
Why buy_stock_market is rated Critical
This tool directly executes a financial transaction by placing a real buy order through broker APIs (Robinhood/Schwab). A misuse or unintended invocation could result in immediate, potentially irreversible financial commitments at market price, making it critical severity under the Financial category.
From the tool's definition Places a market buy order for a stock
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The rule that runs buy_stock_market safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Open Stocks MCP, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For buy_stock_market, this is the rule to start with:
Any call to buy_stock_market is blocked until a human approves it. The rest of the server keeps working.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Open Stocks MCP, apply this rule, and every buy_stock_market call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about buy_stock_market
Places a market buy order for a stock. It is categorised as a Financial tool in the Open Stocks MCP MCP Server, which means it involves financial transactions. Block by default and require explicit approval.
Register the Open Stocks MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for buy_stock_market: 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 Open Stocks MCP. Nothing to install.
buy_stock_market is a Financial tool with critical risk. Critical-risk tools should be blocked by default and only enabled with explicit human approval.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the buy_stock_market 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 buy_stock_market. 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.
buy_stock_market is provided by the Open Stocks MCP server (open-agent-tools/open-stocks-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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