Search and retrieve industry classification details for companies, including SIC codes, industry titles, and business information, with the FMP Industry Classification Search API.
AI agents call searchIndustryClassification 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 is a passive data retrieval tool. It queries existing classification metadata and returns informational results. No data is created, modified, deleted, or executed. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could retrieve unwanted company classification information, but this causes no financial, operational, or destructive harm. Classified as Read with low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'searchIndustryClassification' and description state it 'search and retrieve industry classification details' — a query operation with no modification or execution of code.
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Search and retrieve industry classification details for companies, including SIC codes, industry titles, and business information, with the FMP Industry Classification Search API. 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 searchIndustryClassification: 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.
searchIndustryClassification 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 searchIndustryClassification 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 searchIndustryClassification. 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.
searchIndustryClassification 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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