Stay informed about upcoming dividend payments with the FMP Dividends Company API. This API provides essential dividend data for individual stock symbols, including record dates, payment dates, declaration dates, and more.
AI agents call getDividends to retrieve information from Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a data retrieval operation (get_*) that queries historical and scheduled dividend information. It has no side effects, does not execute external operations, does not modify data, and does not involve financial transactions. The worst-case misuse would be gathering dividend data for analysis, which poses minimal risk. Classification: Read with low severity.
From the tool's definition The tool 'getDividends' retrieves 'dividend data for individual stock symbols, including record dates, payment dates, declaration dates, and more.' It provides information about upcoming dividend payments without modifying, executing actions, or moving funds.
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Stay informed about upcoming dividend payments with the FMP Dividends Company API. This API provides essential dividend data for individual stock symbols, including record dates, payment dates, declaration dates, and more. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getDividends: 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 Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server. Nothing to install.
getDividends 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 getDividends 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 getDividends. 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.
getDividends is provided by the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server MCP server (vijitdaroch/financial-modeling-prep-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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