Get the current Saudi market summary including TASI index level, change, market direction, and advancing/declining stock counts.
AI agents call get_market_summary to retrieve information from Sahmk without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a read-only query of market data. It retrieves and presents information about the Saudi market index and statistics without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent cannot cause financial harm or data loss through querying market summaries.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves current market summary data (TASI index level, change, market direction, advancing/declining stock counts) with no modification or side effects. Description explicitly states 'Get the current' data.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_market_summary gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Sahmk, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_market_summary:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_market_summary": {}
}
}get_market_summary 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 current Saudi market summary including TASI index level, change, market direction, and advancing/declining stock counts. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Sahmk MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Sahmk MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_market_summary: 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 Sahmk. Nothing to install.
get_market_summary 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_market_summary 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_market_summary. 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_market_summary is provided by the Sahmk MCP server (sahmk-sa/sahmk-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Sahmk, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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