get_financial_statement
AI agents call get_financial_statement to retrieve information from MCP YFinance Stock 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 from Yahoo Finance API, which is a read operation with no side effects. The pattern of sibling tools and server purpose strongly suggest this is a data query tool. While the description is empty, the name and context provide sufficient confidence it performs data retrieval only. No irreversible actions, code execution, or financial transactions are involved.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_financial_statement' indicates data retrieval; sibling tools on this server (get_bollinger_bands, get_historical_stock_prices, get_rsi, get_macd, get_moving_averages) are all read-only data fetches.
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get_financial_statement. It is categorised as a Read tool in the MCP YFinance Stock Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP YFinance Stock 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 MCP YFinance Stock 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 MCP YFinance Stock Server MCP server (sauniket/mcp-yfinance-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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