Fetch economic calendar events from Forex Factory, MyFXBook, and FRED.
AI agents call fetch_calendar to retrieve information from Market Brief without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves publicly available economic calendar event data from financial data sources (Forex Factory, MyFXBook, FRED). Fetching is a read-only operation with no side effects. While the data may be used to inform financial decisions, the tool itself does not execute trades, move money, or alter any state.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'fetch_calendar' and description 'Fetch economic calendar events' indicate data retrieval only. No modification, deletion, execution, or financial transactions occur.
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Fetch economic calendar events from Forex Factory, MyFXBook, and FRED. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Market Brief MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Market Brief MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for fetch_calendar: 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 Market Brief. Nothing to install.
fetch_calendar 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 fetch_calendar 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 fetch_calendar. 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.
fetch_calendar is provided by the Market Brief MCP server (yukipanpan/marketbrief). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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