Get recent news articles and press releases for a company. Use when
AI agents call get_news to retrieve information from Signal8 MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and returns existing news data about a company. It performs a read-only operation that retrieves information without creating, modifying, deleting, executing code, or committing financial transactions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal; an AI agent retrieving news for the wrong company causes no harm beyond information access.
From the tool's definition Tool is named 'get_news' and described as retrieving 'recent news articles and press releases for a company' — a data retrieval operation with no modification or side effects.
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Get recent news articles and press releases for a company. Use when. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Signal8 MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Signal8 MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_news: 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 Signal8 MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_news 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_news 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_news. 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_news is provided by the Signal8 MCP Server MCP server (signal8ai/signal8-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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