Get recent trades for a Polymarket market. Shows who traded, which side, size, price, and timestamp.
AI agents call get_market_trades to retrieve information from Polymarket 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 retrieves historical trade data from Polymarket without any side effects, state changes, or ability to execute operations. It is purely informational read access to market data, consistent with the Read category. Low severity because unauthorized access to public market trade history poses minimal risk to users or systems.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_market_trades' and description explicitly state it retrieves/displays recent trades data (who, side, size, price, timestamp). Server description confirms 'comprehensive read access' without modification capability.
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Get recent trades for a Polymarket market. Shows who traded, which side, size, price, and timestamp. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Polymarket MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Polymarket MCP Server 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 Polymarket MCP Server. 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 Polymarket MCP Server MCP server (yigitabi5444/yigit_polymarket_mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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