Fetch new speeches from the Federal Reserve website. This will check RSS feeds and optionally index pages for new content.
AI agents call refresh_speeches 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.
refresh_speeches retrieves and indexes publicly available Federal Reserve speeches and RSS feed data. While it may trigger crawling or fetching operations, these are read-only data collection activities with no side effects on data state, no code execution capabilities, and no financial impact.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Fetch new speeches from the Federal Reserve website. This will check RSS feeds and optionally index pages for new content.' The verbs 'fetch' and 'check' indicate data retrieval operations.
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Fetch new speeches from the Federal Reserve website. This will check RSS feeds and optionally index pages for new content. 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 refresh_speeches: 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.
refresh_speeches 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 refresh_speeches 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 refresh_speeches. 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.
refresh_speeches 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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