Get year-by-year stats for a team by their ID.
AI agents call get_team_year_by_year_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 and queries historical team statistics organized by year. It performs a read-only operation with no side effects, no data modification, no code execution, and no financial impact. The scope is limited to returning existing NBA statistical data. Severity is low because misuse would only result in retrieving sports statistics data without adverse consequences.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_team_year_by_year_stats' uses the verb 'get' and description states 'Get year-by-year stats' — both indicate retrieval/querying of historical statistical data with no modification, creation, or deletion of data.
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Get year-by-year stats for a team 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_team_year_by_year_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_team_year_by_year_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_team_year_by_year_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_team_year_by_year_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_team_year_by_year_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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