AI agents call aevo_get_trade_history to retrieve information from Aevo-MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries public trade history data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a read-only operation that fetches existing market data. The 'public' qualifier further confirms this is non-sensitive market information. Despite being part of a trading platform, this specific tool does not move money, execute trades, or cause side effects beyond information retrieval.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'aevo_get_trade_history' and description 'Return recent public trades for an instrument' indicate retrieval of historical trading data with no modification.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Return recent public trades for an instrument. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Aevo-MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Aevo- MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for aevo_get_trade_history: 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 Aevo-MCP. Nothing to install.
aevo_get_trade_history 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 aevo_get_trade_history 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 aevo_get_trade_history. 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.
aevo_get_trade_history is provided by the Aevo- MCP server (ribbon-finance/aevo-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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