Short Interest Tracker | Short Squeeze Potential | Days to Cover -
AI agents call get_short_interest to retrieve information from Mcp Financex 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 financial market data (short interest metrics, squeeze indicators, days to cover). It has no side effects on accounts, positions, or financial obligations. While hosted on a financial server, the tool itself is a read-only data retrieval operation, not a transaction or execution tool.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_short_interest' and description 'Short Interest Tracker | Short Squeeze Potential | Days to Cover' indicate data retrieval of market metrics.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Short Interest Tracker | Short Squeeze Potential | Days to Cover -. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Financex MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Financex MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_short_interest: 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 Mcp Financex. Nothing to install.
get_short_interest 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_short_interest 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_short_interest. 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_short_interest is provided by the Mcp Financex MCP server (xerktech/mcp-financex). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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