AI agents call predict.price to retrieve information from Mcp without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This is a read-only query of public market data. Although the server context involves USDC payments on blockchain, this specific tool only retrieves pricing information without executing transfers, trades, or financial commitments. The tool cannot initiate payments or move funds; it merely surfaces live market information for decision-making.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves 'Live best bid, best ask, and midpoint' for prediction market tokens—purely a data query with no modification, deletion, or financial transaction capability. It fetches market price information from Polymarket.
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Live best bid, best ask, and midpoint for a Polymarket outcome token (CLOB token id — get it from predict.markets clobTokenIds). The midpoint is the market. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for predict.price: 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 Mcp. Nothing to install.
predict.price 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 predict.price 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 predict.price. 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.
predict.price is provided by the MCP server (@2sio/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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