Basic health check for the trading simulator API
AI agents call get_health to retrieve information from Trading Simulator MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Health checks are diagnostic operations that retrieve system status information without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing anything. This is a benign read operation with minimal blast radius if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_health' and description 'Basic health check' indicate a read-only query that checks API availability/status with no side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Basic health check for the trading simulator API. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Trading Simulator MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Trading Simulator MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_health: 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 Trading Simulator MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_health 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_health 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_health. 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_health is provided by the Trading Simulator MCP Server MCP server (recallnet/trading-simulator-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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