Get a comprehensive overview of a vault's trading account status. Use this tool when you need to: - Check account health and available margin - Monitor total exposure and leverage - Understand risk metrics and account status - Assess trading capacity before placing new orders - Get a consolidated...
AI agents call paradex_vault_account_summary to retrieve information from Paradex MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
vault_address | string | — | The address of the vault to get account summary for. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
This is a Read operation—it queries and retrieves account data without modifying or executing actions. However, severity is elevated to 'medium' rather than 'low' because the retrieved financial account information (margin, leverage, exposure, account health) is sensitive and could be misused by an agent to make unauthorized trading decisions or to inform financial fraud, even though the tool itself only reads data.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves account status information including 'account health and available margin', 'total exposure and leverage', 'risk metrics and account status', and 'account performance'.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access paradex_vault_account_summary gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Paradex MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for paradex_vault_account_summary:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"paradex_vault_account_summary": {}
}
}paradex_vault_account_summary is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get a comprehensive overview of a vault's trading account status. Use this tool when you need to: - Check account health and available margin - Monitor total exposure and leverage - Understand risk metrics and account status - Assess trading capacity before placing new orders - Get a consolidated view of account performance This provides essential information about account standing and trading capacity to inform risk management decisions. Example use cases: - Checking available margin before placing new orders - Monitoring account health during market volatility - Assessing total exposure across all markets - Understanding maintenance margin requirements - Planning position adjustments based on account metrics. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Paradex MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
paradex_vault_account_summary accepts 1 parameter: vault_address. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Paradex MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for paradex_vault_account_summary: 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 Paradex MCP Server. Nothing to install.
paradex_vault_account_summary 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 paradex_vault_account_summary 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 paradex_vault_account_summary. 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.
paradex_vault_account_summary is provided by the Paradex MCP Server MCP server (tradeparadex/mcp-paradex-py). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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