Search Federal Reserve speeches by keyword. Searches in title and content.
AI agents call search_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.
This tool retrieves and queries publicly available Federal Reserve speeches based on keywords. It performs a read-only search operation without side effects, data modification, code execution, or destructive actions. The worst case misuse (e.g., exfiltrating speech data) has minimal impact given the data is public policy content. Severity is low because search operations on public archives pose negligible risk.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_speeches' and description 'Search Federal Reserve speeches by keyword. Searches in title and content.' indicate a search/query operation with no modification or execution capability.
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Search Federal Reserve speeches by keyword. Searches in title and 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 search_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.
search_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 search_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 search_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.
search_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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