Search for company press releases with the FMP Search Press Releases API. Find specific corporate announcements and updates by entering a stock symbol or company name.
AI agents call searchPressReleases 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 press release data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It has no side effects and poses minimal risk if misused by an AI agent—the worst outcome is retrieving irrelevant or excessive press release data, which causes no harm to systems or data integrity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'searchPressReleases' and description 'Search for company press releases' indicate a query/retrieval operation with no side effects. The verbs 'search' and 'find' confirm read-only data retrieval.
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Search for company press releases with the FMP Search Press Releases API. Find specific corporate announcements and updates by entering a stock symbol or company name. 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 searchPressReleases: 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.
searchPressReleases 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 searchPressReleases 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 searchPressReleases. 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.
searchPressReleases 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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