Get detailed information about a specific market by its ID.
AI agents call get_market_by_id to retrieve information from Polymarket without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves market data from Polymarket without modifying, executing actions, or committing financial transactions. It is a simple query operation that returns information about a prediction market. The action is read-only and poses minimal risk even if invoked incorrectly by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_market_by_id' and description 'Get detailed information about a specific market by its ID' indicate a retrieval operation with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_market_by_id gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Polymarket, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_market_by_id:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_market_by_id": {}
}
}get_market_by_id is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get detailed information about a specific market by its ID. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Polymarket MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Polymarket MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_market_by_id: 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 Polymarket. Nothing to install.
get_market_by_id 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_market_by_id 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_market_by_id. 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_market_by_id is provided by the Polymarket MCP server (pab1it0/polymarket-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Polymarket, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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