Get trades for a specific market. Returns trade details with maker/taker, price, volume, and fees from on-chain data.
AI agents call get_market_trades to retrieve information from Limitless MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries on-chain data to retrieve historical trade information. It performs a read-only operation that retrieves existing market data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an attacker could gather market intelligence but cannot affect market state, execute code, or move funds.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'get_market_trades' and description states it 'Get trades for a specific market. Returns trade details with maker/taker, price, volume, and fees from on-chain data.' The verb 'Get' and 'Returns' indicate data retrieval with no modification or…
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Get trades for a specific market. Returns trade details with maker/taker, price, volume, and fees from on-chain data. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Limitless MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Limitless MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_market_trades: 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 Limitless MCP. Nothing to install.
get_market_trades 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_trades 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_trades. 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_trades is provided by the Limitless MCP server (paulieb14/limitless-subgraphs). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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