Get a financial metric aggregated across all companies for a specific period. Useful for industry comparisons.
AI agents call get_industry_metric 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 performs a read-only operation on SEC filing data. It aggregates and returns financial metrics without any side effects, state changes, or irreversible actions. There is no financial transaction, code execution, or data modification capability. The minimal risk reflects that it simply queries and returns publicly available SEC data.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves aggregated financial metrics across companies for a specific period—no creation, modification, deletion, or execution of operations.
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Get a financial metric aggregated across all companies for a specific period. Useful for industry comparisons. 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_industry_metric: 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_industry_metric 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_industry_metric 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_industry_metric. 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_industry_metric 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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