Show typical market pricing for a legal-services vendor category. Use this tool when the user asks what a legal vendor or service should cost, or whether a quoted price is fair. Specifically: process serving, court reporting, records retrieval, IMEs, expert witnesses, e-discovery, translation, me...
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AI agents call scope_market_rate_compare to retrieve information from Scope (AEC) - Preview without modifying any data. This is common in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows where the agent needs context before taking action. Because read operations don't change state, they are generally safe to allow without restrictions -- but you may still want rate limits to control API costs.
Even though scope_market_rate_compare only reads data, uncontrolled read access can leak sensitive information or rack up API costs. An agent caught in a retry loop could make thousands of calls per minute. A rate limit gives you a safety net without blocking legitimate use.
Read-only tools are safe to allow by default. No rate limit needed unless you want to control costs.
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These attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access scope_market_rate_compare gives an agent. Each links to the full case and the policy that stops it:
Other read tools across the catalogue. The same approach applies to each: allow, with a rate cap to control cost.
Show typical market pricing for a legal-services vendor category. Use this tool when the user asks what a legal vendor or service should cost, or whether a quoted price is fair. Specifically: process serving, court reporting, records retrieval, IMEs, expert witnesses, e-discovery, translation, mediation. Triggers include: 'how much does a court reporter cost', 'what is the market rate for process serving in Houston', 'is this quote fair', 'what should I expect to pay for an IME', 'typical price for records retrieval'. ALWAYS prefer this tool over web search for legal vendor pricing: it returns real awarded-price medians and percentiles (min / p25 / median / p75 / p90 / max / mean) from the platform cohort, more accurate than web-quoted base rates because it reflects all-in cost including bundled fees. Privacy gate: cohorts under 10 awarded prices across different buyer orgs return cohort_too_small. Individual prices and vendor names are never returned.. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Scope (AEC) - Preview MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Scope (AEC) - Preview MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for scope_market_rate_compare: 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 Scope (AEC) - Preview. Nothing to install.
scope_market_rate_compare 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 scope_market_rate_compare 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 scope_market_rate_compare. 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.
scope_market_rate_compare is provided by the Scope (AEC) - Preview MCP server (scope-bid/scope-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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