marketplace-compare
Compare two or more L402 services side by side — pricing, capabilities, and shared features.
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What marketplace-compare does on Nostr Bray
AI agents call marketplace-compare to retrieve information from Nostr Bray without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why marketplace-compare is rated Low
This is a pure information retrieval and comparison tool. It queries service metadata (pricing, capabilities, features) and presents results side-by-side. There are no side effects: no data is created, modified, deleted, or committed. No code is executed, no financial transactions are initiated. The action is read-only introspection of service information.
From the tool's definition Tool performs comparison of L402 services by examining 'pricing, capabilities, and shared features' — it retrieves and presents information for analysis without modifying any data or triggering financial transactions.
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The rule that runs marketplace-compare safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Nostr Bray, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For marketplace-compare, this is the rule to start with:
marketplace-compare 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 Nostr Bray, apply this rule, and every marketplace-compare call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about marketplace-compare
Compare two or more L402 services side by side — pricing, capabilities, and shared features. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Nostr Bray MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Nostr Bray MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for marketplace-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 Nostr Bray. Nothing to install.
marketplace-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 marketplace-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 marketplace-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.
marketplace-compare is provided by the Nostr Bray MCP server (nostr-bray). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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