Get futures account balance.
AI agents call getBalance to retrieve information from Aster Finance 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 current balance information from a futures trading account. While it pertains to financial data, the operation itself is read-only with no side effects, no data modification, and no money movement. The account information is queried but not altered.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'getBalance' and description 'Get futures account balance' indicate a retrieval operation that queries account information without modifying or moving funds.
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Get futures account balance. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Aster Finance MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Aster Finance MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getBalance: 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 Aster Finance MCP Server. Nothing to install.
getBalance 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 getBalance 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 getBalance. 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.
getBalance is provided by the Aster Finance MCP Server MCP server (questflowai/aster-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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