Get option flow alerts showing significant option trades and unusual activity
AI agents call get_option_trades_flow_alerts to retrieve information from Unusual Whales 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 option flow alerts and market intelligence data. It is a read-only operation that fetches and displays information about unusual option trading activity. While the data is financial in nature and could influence trading decisions, the tool itself does not execute trades, move money, or modify any data—it only queries and returns existing information.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_option_trades_flow_alerts' and description 'Get option flow alerts showing significant option trades and unusual activity' indicate a retrieval operation that queries and returns financial data without modifying any state.
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Get option flow alerts showing significant option trades and unusual activity. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Unusual Whales MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Unusual Whales MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_option_trades_flow_alerts: 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 Unusual Whales MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_option_trades_flow_alerts 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_option_trades_flow_alerts 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_option_trades_flow_alerts. 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_option_trades_flow_alerts is provided by the Unusual Whales MCP Server MCP server (phields/unusualwhales-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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