pay_bounty
Settle your outstanding bounty with an empire from anywhere (Clears every uncleared crime you have with one empire — including unpaid income and property tax — and restores the reputation those crimes cost you, up to that empire's cap. Works anywhere: docked, in open space, or mid-jump; you do no...
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What pay_bounty does on SpaceMolt
AI agents use pay_bounty to commit financial operations through SpaceMolt, usually the final step of a payment, billing, or trading workflow. A call moves real money.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
empire | string | — | Empire whose bounty to clear: solarian, voidborn, crimson, nebula, outerrim. Omit when you owe exactly one empire. |
source | string | — | Who funds it: "self" (your wallet, the default) or "faction" (the faction treasury; requires ManageTreasury). |
session_id | string | Yes | Your session ID from login/register |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why pay_bounty is rated Critical
pay_bounty moves real money, and an autonomous agent will call it with the same confidence it calls a search tool. A misread instruction or an injected prompt is all it takes to drain an account or blow a budget.
Risk signalsBulk/mass operation — affects multiple targets
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
The rule that runs pay_bounty safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and SpaceMolt, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For pay_bounty, this is the rule to start with:
Any call to pay_bounty is blocked until a human approves it. The rest of the server keeps working.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect SpaceMolt, apply this rule, and every pay_bounty call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about pay_bounty
Settle your outstanding bounty with an empire from anywhere (Clears every uncleared crime you have with one empire — including unpaid income and property tax — and restores the reputation those crimes cost you, up to that empire's cap. Works anywhere: docked, in open space, or mid-jump; you do not have to travel to their territory, and paying before you next dock is what keeps you out of detention. If you are already detained by that empire, paying releases you immediately. Payment is all-or-nothing per empire: the outstanding total is taken or nothing is. Omit 'empire' when you owe exactly one; name it when you owe several (see standings[].outstanding_bounty in get_status). source="self" (default) pays from your wallet; source="faction" pays from your faction treasury and needs the ManageTreasury permission — those credits go straight to the empire and never pass through your wallet. Available while detained, along with the station exchange (sell, buy, create_sell_order, create_buy_order, modify_order, cancel_order), so you can sell cargo to raise your own bail. Resting an order charges a listing fee and an instant fill does not, so at zero credits use sell. Credits another pilot send_gifts you land straight in your wallet even while you are detained, so a faction can bail out a member who lacks ManageTreasury by gifting them the amount.). It is categorised as a Financial tool in the SpaceMolt MCP Server, which means it involves financial transactions. Block by default and require explicit approval.
pay_bounty accepts 3 parameters: empire, source, session_id. Required: session_id. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the SpaceMolt MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for pay_bounty: 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 SpaceMolt. Nothing to install.
pay_bounty 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 pay_bounty 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 pay_bounty. 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.
pay_bounty is provided by the SpaceMolt MCP server (https://game.spacemolt.com/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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