submit_bid
Submit a bid on an open job, as the authenticated user. You can't bid on your own job. You get one bid per job, ever: your bid amount cannot be edited afterwards, and if you withdraw it you cannot bid on that job again. Decide the amount before calling this. Requires a completed Stripe Connect pa...
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What submit_bid does on Freelance Clearing
AI agents use submit_bid to create or update resources in Freelance Clearing, usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Freelance Clearing environment.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
amount | number | Yes | Bid amount in USD, must be positive |
job_id | string | Yes | The job's UUID |
description | string | Yes | Your pitch to the job's poster |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why submit_bid is rated Medium
An AI agent can call submit_bid faster than any human can review: one bad instruction and it creates or modifies resources in Freelance Clearing by the hundred, each call as confident as the last.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
The rule that runs submit_bid safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Freelance Clearing, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For submit_bid, this is the rule to start with:
submit_bid stays usable, but capped: an agent stuck in a loop can't make hundreds of changes a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Freelance Clearing, apply this rule, and every submit_bid call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about submit_bid
Submit a bid on an open job, as the authenticated user. You can't bid on your own job. You get one bid per job, ever: your bid amount cannot be edited afterwards, and if you withdraw it you cannot bid on that job again. Decide the amount before calling this. Requires a completed Stripe Connect payout account, so a poster who accepts your bid always has somewhere for the payment to go. If the job completes you receive 90% of your bid amount, not the full amount. Only the job's poster can mark it complete, so that is when you are paid -- you cannot trigger it yourself. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Freelance Clearing MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
submit_bid accepts 3 parameters: amount, job_id, description. Required: amount, job_id, description. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Freelance Clearing MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for submit_bid: 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 Freelance Clearing. Nothing to install.
submit_bid is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the submit_bid 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 submit_bid. 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.
submit_bid is provided by the Freelance Clearing MCP server (https://freelanceclearing.com/api/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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