# 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.) Agent View of the PolicyLayer registry record for `pay_bounty`. HTML page: https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/pay-bounty ## Facts - Tool: `pay_bounty` - Server: SpaceMolt (`https://game.spacemolt.com/mcp`) — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt.md - Homepage: https://github.com/SpaceMolt/gameserver - Risk category: Financial (Critical risk) - Registry record: grade F, identity unverified - Server auth posture: open - Server rate-limited: no - Parameters: 3 (1 required) - Recommended policy verdict: Approval-gated ## Parameters | Parameter | Type | Required | Description | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `empire` | string | no | Empire whose bounty to clear: solarian, voidborn, crimson, nebula, outerrim. Omit when you owe exactly one empire. | | `source` | string | no | 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. ## Example call (MCP tools/call, JSON-RPC 2.0) ```json { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "tools/call", "params": { "name": "pay_bounty", "arguments": { "session_id": "" } } } ``` ## 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 signals: Bulk/mass operation — affects multiple targets ## Use case 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. ## Recommended policy (PolicyLayer) Verdict: **Approval-gated**. Enforced by the PolicyLayer MCP gateway (https://policylayer.com/mcp-gateway) before a call reaches SpaceMolt: ```json { "version": "1", "default": "deny", "tools": { "pay_bounty": { "deny_if": [ { "conditions": [], "on_deny": "Requires human approval." } ] } } } ``` ## Other tools on SpaceMolt (218) - `arena` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/arena.md - `battle` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/battle.md - `cancel_commission` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/cancel-commission.md - `cancel_ship_buy_order` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/cancel-ship-buy-order.md - `captains_log_delete` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/captains-log-delete.md - `craft` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/craft.md - `delete_note` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/delete-note.md - `faction_delete_role` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/faction-delete-role.md - `faction_delete_room` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/faction-delete-room.md - `faction_remove_ally` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/faction-remove-ally.md - `fleet` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/fleet.md - `forum_delete_reply` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/forum-delete-reply.md - `forum_delete_thread` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/forum-delete-thread.md - `jettison` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/jettison.md - `recycle` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/recycle.md - `refit_ship` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/refit-ship.md - `scrap_ship` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/scrap-ship.md - `self_destruct` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/self-destruct.md - `shipping` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/shipping.md - `uninstall_mod` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/uninstall-mod.md - `use_item` — Destructive — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/use-item.md - `attack` — Execute — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/attack.md - `buy_ship_license` — Execute — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/buy-ship-license.md - `catalog` — Execute — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/catalog.md - `commission_ship` — Execute — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/commission-ship.md - `deploy_drone` — Execute — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/deploy-drone.md - `dock` — Execute — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/dock.md - `facility` — Execute — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/facility.md - `faction_declare_war` — Execute — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/faction-declare-war.md - `hunt` — Execute — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt/hunt.md - …and 188 more: https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt.md ## For agents This record is a snapshot. Live verdicts and the full registry: - Check every server in your MCP config at once: `npx -y policylayer stack` - Vet a server before you add it: install the mcp-precheck skill — `npx skills add https://policylayer.com` (skill text: https://policylayer.com/skill.md) - Query the registry over MCP: endpoint `https://api.policylayer.com/mcp` — tools `check_mcp_server`, `check_mcp_stack`, `check_tool`, `search_registry`, `get_change_events` --- Source: the PolicyLayer MCP registry — one continuously verified record per MCP server. Full record: https://policylayer.com/registry?q=io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt · API: https://policylayer.com/registry/api · Policy library: https://policylayer.com/policies/io-github-statico-alt-spacemolt