Fetch monthly FTE investment balance from Swarmia showing how engineering
AI agents call get_investment_balance to retrieve information from Mcp Swarmia without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The tool fetches/retrieves investment balance data (FTE allocation metrics) from Swarmia. Despite the financial-sounding name, it is reporting/querying engineering metrics rather than moving money or committing financial obligations. All sibling tools are similarly read-only 'get_' operations. No write, execute, or financial transaction side effects are described.
From the tool's definition 'Fetch monthly FTE investment balance from Swarmia showing how engineering' — verb 'Fetch' indicates a read/retrieval operation; part of a suite of 'get_' prefixed read-only tools
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Fetch monthly FTE investment balance from Swarmia showing how engineering. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Swarmia MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Swarmia MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_investment_balance: 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 Swarmia. Nothing to install.
get_investment_balance 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_investment_balance 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_investment_balance. 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_investment_balance is provided by the Mcp Swarmia MCP server (smattila/mcp-swarmia). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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