For a single politician, list trades that occurred within a window of days before
AI agents call get_policy_trade_overlap 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 retrieves historical trading data associated with politicians' activities. While the data itself may be sensitive (political-financial relationships), the tool performs a read-only query operation—it merely lists and correlates existing trades within a time window. No data is created, modified, deleted, or used to trigger financial transactions.
From the tool's definition Tool name and description indicate data retrieval: 'get_policy_trade_overlap' and 'list trades that occurred within a window of days before' are query/fetch operations with no modification, deletion, or execution of external systems.
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For a single politician, list trades that occurred within a window of days before. 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_policy_trade_overlap: 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_policy_trade_overlap 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_policy_trade_overlap 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_policy_trade_overlap. 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_policy_trade_overlap 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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