Get income statements for a company.
AI agents call get_income_statements to retrieve information from Financial Datasets 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 financial data (income statements) without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a pure read operation on existing company financial records. The severity is low because misuse would only expose existing financial data, not cause financial transactions or data loss.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_income_statements' and description 'Get income statements for a company' indicate a retrieval operation with no modification or execution capabilities. Income statements are historical financial records.
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Get income statements for a company. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Financial Datasets MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Financial Datasets MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_income_statements: 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 Financial Datasets MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_income_statements 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_income_statements 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_income_statements. 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_income_statements is provided by the Financial Datasets MCP Server MCP server (parichay-pothepalli/financial-research-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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