Get career stats for a player by their ID.
AI agents call get_player_career_stats to retrieve information from NBA 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 player career statistics without modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It queries existing NBA data through the nba_api library and returns information. There are no side effects, state changes, or irreversible operations. The minimal blast radius of misuse (returning unwanted statistics) places this firmly in the Read category with low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_player_career_stats' and description 'Get career stats for a player by their ID' indicate a retrieval operation. The verb 'Get' and context of retrieving historical statistics are characteristic of read-only data access.
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Get career stats for a player by their ID. It is categorised as a Read tool in the NBA MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the NBA MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_player_career_stats: 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 NBA MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_player_career_stats 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_player_career_stats 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_player_career_stats. 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_player_career_stats is provided by the NBA MCP Server MCP server (stevenyuser/nba_mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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