Fetch a Polymarket market by id, conditionId, or slug.
AI agents call get_market to retrieve information from Polymarket Research without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves public market data from Polymarket without any side effects, modification, or execution of external operations. It is a straightforward query operation that aligns with the 'Read' category. The read-only nature of the server and the fetch-based description confirm no destructive, write, execute, or financial operations are performed.
From the tool's definition Tool is described as 'Fetch a Polymarket market by id, conditionId, or slug' — a retrieval operation with no modification, deletion, or execution capability. The server is explicitly stated as 'Read-only MCP server'.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Fetch a Polymarket market by id, conditionId, or slug. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Polymarket Research MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Polymarket Research MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_market: 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 Research. Nothing to install.
get_market 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 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. 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 is provided by the Polymarket Research MCP server (yoppav/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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