polymarket_get_market
Get detailed information about a specific market by ID. No authentication required.
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What polymarket_get_market does on Polymarket MCP Server
AI agents call polymarket_get_market to retrieve information from Polymarket MCP Server without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why polymarket_get_market is rated Low
This tool retrieves market data with no side effects, no write operations, and no ability to modify state or create orders. It is explicitly read-only and unauthenticated. The worst-case misuse would be information disclosure or inference attacks on market data, which poses minimal risk. Classified as Read with low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool name contains 'get_' and description states 'Get detailed information about a specific market by ID. No authentication required.' This is a pure read operation retrieving market data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
The rule that runs polymarket_get_market safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Polymarket MCP Server, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For polymarket_get_market, this is the rule to start with:
polymarket_get_market is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Polymarket MCP Server, apply this rule, and every polymarket_get_market call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about polymarket_get_market
Get detailed information about a specific market by ID. No authentication required. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Polymarket MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Polymarket MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for polymarket_get_market: 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 Polymarket MCP Server. Nothing to install.
polymarket_get_market 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 polymarket_get_market 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 polymarket_get_market. 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.
polymarket_get_market is provided by the Polymarket MCP Server MCP server (asthetech/mewcp-polymarket). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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