AI agents call earnings_winners_screener to retrieve information from Finviz MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool appears to filter or identify stocks that performed well around earnings announcements. Screeners in financial analysis platforms typically query and retrieve matching results without modifying data, executing trades, or causing side effects. The lack of action verbs (create, delete, execute, transfer) in the name and the parallel with other analytical screeners on the same server point to a Read operation.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'earnings_winners_screener' and server context describing 'stock screening and fundamental analysis capabilities' indicate data retrieval.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access earnings_winners_screener gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Finviz MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for earnings_winners_screener:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"earnings_winners_screener": {}
}
}earnings_winners_screener is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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earnings_winners_screener. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Finviz MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Finviz MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for earnings_winners_screener: 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 Finviz MCP Server. Nothing to install.
earnings_winners_screener 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 earnings_winners_screener 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 earnings_winners_screener. 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.
earnings_winners_screener is provided by the Finviz MCP Server MCP server (tradermonty/finviz-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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