Access a comprehensive list of companies with available financial statements through the FMP Financial Statement Symbols List API. Find companies listed on major global exchanges and obtain up-to-date financial data including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, are provided.
AI agents call getFinancialStatementSymbols 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 retrieves and lists financial statement data for companies without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a pure data query/lookup function that returns reference information about available financial statements. The low severity reflects minimal risk even if misused — it only provides read-only access to publicly available financial data with no side effects.
From the tool's definition Tool description indicates it provides 'Access a comprehensive list of companies' and 'obtain up-to-date financial data including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements' — retrieval and query operations with no modification, execution, or…
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Access a comprehensive list of companies with available financial statements through the FMP Financial Statement Symbols List API. Find companies listed on major global exchanges and obtain up-to-date financial data including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, are provided. 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 getFinancialStatementSymbols: 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.
getFinancialStatementSymbols 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 getFinancialStatementSymbols 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 getFinancialStatementSymbols. 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.
getFinancialStatementSymbols 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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