AI agents call get_company_news to retrieve information from Stock Market MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This is a data retrieval tool that queries company news from the Finnhub API. It has no write, destructive, execute, or financial side effects. The 'get_' prefix and alignment with other read-only market data tools confirm the Read category. Severity is low because retrieving public market news poses minimal risk even if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_company_news' with sibling tools like 'get_market_news', 'get_stock_price', 'get_stock_candles', and 'get_basic_financials' all indicate data retrieval operations.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_company_news gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Stock Market MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_company_news:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_company_news": {}
}
}get_company_news is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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get_company_news. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Stock Market MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Stock Market MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_company_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 Stock Market MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_company_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_company_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_company_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_company_news is provided by the Stock Market MCP Server MCP server (sverze/stock-market-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Stock Market MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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