Get events for a sport with filtering by league, participant, status, date range, bookmaker availability, and pagination support.
AI agents call get_events to retrieve information from Odds-API MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and returns sports betting event data without side effects. It filters and retrieves information from the Odds-API but does not create, modify, delete, or execute any operations. The filtering and pagination are read-only operations. Even in the context of sports betting, accessing odds data is informational and carries no financial risk by itself.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_events' with description stating it retrieves events 'with filtering by league, participant, status, date range, bookmaker availability, and pagination support' — purely a data retrieval operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of…
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Get events for a sport with filtering by league, participant, status, date range, bookmaker availability, and pagination support. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Odds-API MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Odds-API MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_events: 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 Odds-API MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_events 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 get_events 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 get_events. 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.
get_events is provided by the Odds-API MCP Server MCP server (odds-api-io/odds-api-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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