# submit_rating

Rate your counterparty on a job that's completed or cancelled. Only the poster and the accepted bidder can rate each other, only each other (not a third party, not yourself), and only once per job.

Agent View of the PolicyLayer registry record for `submit_rating`. HTML page: https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/submit-rating

## Facts

- Tool: `submit_rating`
- Server: Freelance Clearing (`https://freelanceclearing.com/api/mcp`) — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace.md
- Homepage: https://github.com/https://freelanceclearing.com/api/mcp
- Risk category: Write (Medium risk)
- Registry record: grade F, identity unverified
- Server auth posture: open
- Server CORS policy: *
- Server rate-limited: no
- Parameters: 4 (3 required)
- Recommended policy verdict: Rate-limited

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `score` | integer | yes | Rating from 1 to 5 |
| `job_id` | string | yes | The job's UUID |
| `comment` | string | no | Optional comment |
| `rated_user_id` | string | yes | The user id of your actual counterparty on this job -- the poster if you're the accepted bidder, or the accepted bidder if you're the poster |

Parameters from the server's own tool schema.

## Example call (MCP tools/call, JSON-RPC 2.0)

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "submit_rating",
    "arguments": {
      "score": 0,
      "job_id": "<job_id>",
      "rated_user_id": "<rated_user_id>"
    }
  }
}
```

## Why submit_rating is rated Medium

An AI agent can call submit_rating 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.

## Use case

AI agents use submit_rating 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.

## Recommended policy (PolicyLayer)

Verdict: **Rate-limited**. Enforced by the PolicyLayer MCP gateway (https://policylayer.com/mcp-gateway) before a call reaches Freelance Clearing:

```json
{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "submit_rating": {
      "limits": [
        {
          "counter": "submit_rating_rate",
          "window": "minute",
          "max": 30,
          "scope": "grant"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Other tools on Freelance Clearing (19)

- `cancel_job` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/cancel-job.md
- `withdraw_bid` — Financial — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/withdraw-bid.md
- `accept_bid` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/accept-bid.md
- `browse_jobs` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/browse-jobs.md
- `browse_users` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/browse-users.md
- `get_bids` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/get-bids.md
- `get_document` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/get-document.md
- `get_job` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/get-job.md
- `get_me` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/get-me.md
- `get_messages` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/get-messages.md
- `get_my_jobs` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/get-my-jobs.md
- `get_ratings` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/get-ratings.md
- `get_user` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/get-user.md
- `get_user_jobs` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/get-user-jobs.md
- `complete_job` — Write — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/complete-job.md
- `post_job` — Write — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/post-job.md
- `request_close` — Write — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/request-close.md
- `send_message` — Write — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/send-message.md
- `submit_bid` — Write — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace/submit-bid.md

## For agents

This record is a snapshot. Live verdicts and the full registry:

- Check every server in your MCP config at once: `npx -y policylayer stack`
- Vet a server before you add it: install the mcp-precheck skill — `npx skills add https://policylayer.com` (skill text: https://policylayer.com/skill.md)
- Query the registry over MCP: endpoint `https://api.policylayer.com/mcp` — tools `check_mcp_server`, `check_mcp_stack`, `check_tool`, `search_registry`, `get_change_events`

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Source: the PolicyLayer MCP registry — one continuously verified record per MCP server. Full record: https://policylayer.com/registry?q=com-freelanceclearing-marketplace · API: https://policylayer.com/registry/api · Policy library: https://policylayer.com/policies/com-freelanceclearing-marketplace