Get statistics about stored Federal Reserve speeches.
AI agents call get_speech_stats to retrieve information from Fed Speech MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves statistical information from an existing dataset of Federal Reserve speeches. There are no side effects, no data modification, no code execution, and no destructive operations. The function is purely analytical and read-only, consistent with other sibling tools on this server (get_latest_speeches, get_speech, search_speeches) which are all retrieval operations.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_speech_stats' and description 'Get statistics about stored Federal Reserve speeches' indicate a retrieval operation that queries and reports aggregate data about speeches without modifying, executing, or deleting anything.
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Get statistics about stored Federal Reserve speeches. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Fed Speech MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Fed Speech MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_speech_stats: 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 Fed Speech MCP. Nothing to install.
get_speech_stats 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_speech_stats 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_speech_stats. 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_speech_stats is provided by the Fed Speech MCP server (zsun4work/fed-speech-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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