Get the most recent metrics for a company.
AI agents call get_company_recent_metrics to retrieve information from Standard Metrics 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 historical or current metrics data from the VC portfolio system. It performs no writes, deletions, code execution, or financial transactions—merely querying and returning information. The blast radius of misuse is limited to potential data exposure of portfolio metrics, which while sensitive, does not directly result in data loss, code execution, or financial harm.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_company_recent_metrics' and description 'Get the most recent metrics for a company' indicate a retrieval operation with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_company_recent_metrics gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Standard Metrics MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_company_recent_metrics:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_company_recent_metrics": {}
}
}get_company_recent_metrics is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get the most recent metrics for a company. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Standard Metrics MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Standard Metrics MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_company_recent_metrics: 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 Standard Metrics MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_company_recent_metrics 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_company_recent_metrics 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_company_recent_metrics. 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_company_recent_metrics is provided by the Standard Metrics MCP Server MCP server (quaestor-technologies/smx-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Standard Metrics MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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