AI agents call sg_employment_growth to retrieve information from Sgdata 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 employment data to compute percentage changes—a read-only operation with no side effects, data modification, code execution, or financial implications. The tool is part of a data access MCP server providing typed access to public Singapore government datasets, consistent with other sibling tools (sg_births_history, sg_carpark_availability) that are clearly informational.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'sg_employment_growth' and description 'Percent change in employment for a sector between two years' indicate data retrieval and calculation of statistical metrics from Singapore government datasets.
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Percent change in employment for a sector between two years. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Sgdata MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Sgdata MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for sg_employment_growth: 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 Sgdata. Nothing to install.
sg_employment_growth 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 sg_employment_growth 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 sg_employment_growth. 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.
sg_employment_growth is provided by the Sgdata MCP server (sypherin/sgdata-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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