Get analyst recommendations for a stock.
AI agents call get_recommendations to retrieve information from yfinance 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 analyst recommendations data from Yahoo Finance—a read-only operation with no side effects. It does not create, modify, delete data, execute code, or commit financial transactions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal (information disclosure only).
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_recommendations' and description 'Get analyst recommendations for a stock' indicate a query/retrieval operation that fetches existing analyst data without modification, deletion, or execution of external operations.
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Get analyst recommendations for a stock. It is categorised as a Read tool in the yfinance MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the yfinance MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_recommendations: 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 yfinance MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_recommendations 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_recommendations 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_recommendations. 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_recommendations is provided by the yfinance MCP Server MCP server (torosent/yfinance-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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