markets.trending
List trending Polymarket markets ranked by trading volume over a configurable period (24h, 7d, or 30d). Filter by category to focus on specific topics. Returns market question, price, and volume.
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What markets.trending does on Polymarket Agent Mcp
AI agents call markets.trending to retrieve information from Polymarket Agent Mcp without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why markets.trending is rated Low
This tool queries and retrieves publicly available market data from Polymarket (question text, current price, trading volume metrics). It performs no writes, deletions, code execution, or financial operations. While the server as a whole enables trading automation, this specific tool is read-only market intelligence.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'markets.trending' and description indicate it 'List[s] trending Polymarket markets' and 'Returns market question, price, and volume' — purely retrieval operations with no data modification, deletion, execution, or financial transaction capability.
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The rule that runs markets.trending safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Polymarket Agent Mcp, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For markets.trending, this is the rule to start with:
markets.trending 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 Agent Mcp, apply this rule, and every markets.trending call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about markets.trending
List trending Polymarket markets ranked by trading volume over a configurable period (24h, 7d, or 30d). Filter by category to focus on specific topics. Returns market question, price, and volume. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Polymarket Agent Mcp MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Polymarket Agent MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for markets.trending: 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 Agent Mcp. Nothing to install.
markets.trending 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 markets.trending 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 markets.trending. 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.
markets.trending is provided by the Polymarket Agent MCP server (demwick/polymarket-agent-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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