Access official company press releases with the FMP Press Releases API. Get real-time updates on corporate announcements, earnings reports, mergers, and more.
AI agents call getPressReleases 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 queries publicly available company press releases and corporate announcements. It performs no data modification, deletion, code execution, or financial transactions. The function is purely informational—fetching existing press release data. The blast radius of misuse is minimal since press releases are public information and read-only access cannot cause unintended side effects.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'getPressReleases' and description 'Access official company press releases' and 'Get real-time updates on corporate announcements' indicate data retrieval with no modification or execution capability.
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Access official company press releases with the FMP Press Releases API. Get real-time updates on corporate announcements, earnings reports, mergers, 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 getPressReleases: 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.
getPressReleases 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 getPressReleases 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 getPressReleases. 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.
getPressReleases 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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