Get financial statements for a ticker
AI agents call get_financial_statement to retrieve information from Yahoo 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 financial statement data (balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements) for a given stock ticker. It has no side effects, cannot modify or delete data, cannot execute code or trigger external operations, and involves no financial transactions. It is purely a data retrieval operation, making it a Read category tool with low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_financial_statement' with description 'Get financial statements for a ticker' indicates retrieval of historical financial data with no modification, deletion, or execution capabilities.
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Get financial statements for a ticker. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Yahoo Finance MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Yahoo Finance MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_financial_statement: 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 Yahoo Finance MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_financial_statement 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_financial_statement 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_financial_statement. 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_financial_statement is provided by the Yahoo Finance MCP Server MCP server (refself/yahoo-finance-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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