orders.sell
Sell an open position by trade_id (from get_positions) or condition_id. In live mode, places a sell order on Polymarket. In preview mode, marks the position as sold in the database and calculates realized P&L.
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What orders.sell does on Polymarket Agent Mcp
AI agents use orders.sell to commit financial operations through Polymarket Agent Mcp, usually the final step of a payment, billing, or trading workflow. A call moves real money.
Why orders.sell is rated Critical
This tool sells financial positions on Polymarket, a real-money prediction market. In live mode it places actual sell orders via the CLOB API, committing financial transactions and realizing gains/losses. This is a direct financial operation with potentially irreversible market impact, warranting the highest severity.
From the tool's definition 'Sell an open position', 'places a sell order on Polymarket', 'live mode', 'calculates realized P&L' — directly executes a financial trade on a prediction market exchange
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The rule that runs orders.sell 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 orders.sell, this is the rule to start with:
Any call to orders.sell is blocked until a human approves it. The rest of the server keeps working.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Polymarket Agent Mcp, apply this rule, and every orders.sell call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about orders.sell
Sell an open position by trade_id (from get_positions) or condition_id. In live mode, places a sell order on Polymarket. In preview mode, marks the position as sold in the database and calculates realized P&L. It is categorised as a Financial tool in the Polymarket Agent Mcp MCP Server, which means it involves financial transactions. Block by default and require explicit approval.
Register the Polymarket Agent MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for orders.sell: 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.
orders.sell is a Financial tool with critical risk. Critical-risk tools should be blocked by default and only enabled with explicit human approval.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the orders.sell 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 orders.sell. 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.
orders.sell 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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