Get historical news articles for a symbol directly from Interactive Brokers. Includes premium sources like Reuters, Dow Jones, and Briefing.com.
AI agents call get_ib_news to retrieve information from IB Portfolio Tracker MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool only queries and returns existing news article data. It does not modify, delete, execute code, or move money. The worst-case misuse would be information disclosure or scraping of news data, which poses minimal risk. Classification as Read with low severity is appropriate.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves historical news articles from Interactive Brokers sources (Reuters, Dow Jones, Briefing.com). Verb 'Get' and descriptor 'retrieves' indicate data retrieval with no side effects.
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Get historical news articles for a symbol directly from Interactive Brokers. Includes premium sources like Reuters, Dow Jones, and Briefing.com. It is categorised as a Read tool in the IB Portfolio Tracker MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the IB Portfolio Tracker MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_ib_news: 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 IB Portfolio Tracker MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_ib_news 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 get_ib_news 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 get_ib_news. 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.
get_ib_news is provided by the IB Portfolio Tracker MCP Server MCP server (vinbg/ib-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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