Get Federal Reserve speeches by a specific speaker. Filter by name, role, and date range.
AI agents call get_speeches_by_speaker 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 and filters existing Federal Reserve speech data based on speaker identity and temporal constraints. It performs a query operation with no side effects, no code execution, and no data modification. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could retrieve speeches it shouldn't have access to, but cannot alter or delete them, nor execute arbitrary operations.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_speeches_by_speaker' and description 'Get Federal Reserve speeches by a specific speaker. Filter by name, role, and date range.' indicates data retrieval with filtering parameters.
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Get Federal Reserve speeches by a specific speaker. Filter by name, role, and date range. 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_speeches_by_speaker: 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_speeches_by_speaker 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_speeches_by_speaker 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_speeches_by_speaker. 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_speeches_by_speaker 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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