Monitor the trading activity of US Senators with the FMP Senate Trading Activity API. Access detailed information on trades made by Senators, including trade dates, assets, amounts, and potential conflicts of interest.
AI agents call getSenateTrades 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 or legally accessible information about Senate trading activity. It performs no write operations, does not execute code or commands, does not delete data, and does not move money or create financial obligations. The tool's purpose is informational analysis of third-party trading data, not execution of trades or financial transactions by the user.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'getSenateTrades' and description 'Monitor the trading activity of US Senators' and 'Access detailed information on trades' indicate data retrieval only.
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Monitor the trading activity of US Senators with the FMP Senate Trading Activity API. Access detailed information on trades made by Senators, including trade dates, assets, amounts, and potential conflicts of interest. 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 getSenateTrades: 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.
getSenateTrades 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 getSenateTrades 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 getSenateTrades. 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.
getSenateTrades 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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