Get all XBRL financial facts for a company. Returns revenues, assets, liabilities, and other financial metrics from filings.
AI agents call get_company_facts to retrieve information from SEC EDGAR 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 and queries publicly available SEC filing data. It has no side effects, does not modify or delete data, does not execute arbitrary code, and does not involve financial transactions. The data returned (revenues, assets, liabilities) are factual historical metrics already published in SEC filings. This is a straightforward read operation with minimal risk if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Get all XBRL financial facts for a company' and 'Returns revenues, assets, liabilities, and other financial metrics from filings' — purely retrieval operations with no modification or deletion capability.
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Get all XBRL financial facts for a company. Returns revenues, assets, liabilities, and other financial metrics from filings. It is categorised as a Read tool in the SEC EDGAR MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the SEC EDGAR MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_company_facts: 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 SEC EDGAR MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_company_facts 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_company_facts 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_company_facts. 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_company_facts is provided by the SEC EDGAR MCP Server MCP server (shawndrake2/mcp-sec-edgar). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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