AI agents call btse_get_market_summary to retrieve information from Btse without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a read-only operation to fetch market summary information. It retrieves data (OHLCV-like summary statistics) about futures markets without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any trades or financial transactions. The 'get' verb and lack of any side effects clearly place it in the Read category with low severity, as misuse would only expose market information already publicly available.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'btse_get_market_summary' and description 'Get market summary for one or all BTSE futures markets' indicate a query operation that retrieves and displays market data without modification or execution of trades.
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Get market summary for one or all BTSE futures markets. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Btse MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Btse MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for btse_get_market_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 Btse. Nothing to install.
btse_get_market_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 btse_get_market_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 btse_get_market_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.
btse_get_market_summary is provided by the Btse MCP server (xbotlive/btse-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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