Latest sports news headlines for a league: NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL/soccer/college articles with summaries and links. Common sport/league pairs: football/nfl, football/college-football, basketball/nba, basketball/wnba, basketball/mens-college-basketball, baseball/mlb, hockey/nhl, soccer/eng.1 (Premier Lea...
AI agents call get_news to retrieve information from Mcp Espn without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
limit | number | — | Max articles to return (default 10). |
sport | string | Yes | Sport, e.g. 'baseball'. |
league | string | Yes | League slug, e.g. 'mlb'. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
get_news is a straightforward data retrieval tool that fetches and summarizes publicly available sports news. It has no side effects, does not modify data, execute code, delete information, or move money. The tool is limited to reading sports articles and league information from ESPN's public API.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it retrieves 'Latest sports news headlines for a league' with 'summaries and links' — purely informational queries with no mutation, deletion, or external action capability.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Latest sports news headlines for a league: NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL/soccer/college articles with summaries and links. Common sport/league pairs: football/nfl, football/college-football, basketball/nba, basketball/wnba, basketball/mens-college-basketball, baseball/mlb, hockey/nhl, soccer/eng.1 (Premier League), soccer/usa.1 (MLS), soccer/esp.1 (La Liga), soccer/uefa.champions (Champions League). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Espn MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
get_news accepts 3 parameters: limit, sport, league. Required: sport, league. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Mcp Espn MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_news: 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 Mcp Espn. Nothing to install.
get_news 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_news 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_news. 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_news is provided by the Mcp Espn MCP server (pipeworx-io/mcp-espn). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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