ebay_create_item_price_markdown_promotion

What ebay_create_item_price_markdown_promotion does on Ebay

AI agents use ebay_create_item_price_markdown_promotion to create or update resources in Ebay, usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Ebay environment.

Why ebay_create_item_price_markdown_promotion is rated Medium

This tool creates a new promotion (reversible write operation) rather than reading, executing arbitrary code, destructively deleting data, or moving money. A misconfigured AI could create unwanted promotional campaigns affecting product pricing, leading to potential revenue loss or unintended discounts, but the action is reversible through subsequent API calls to modify or cancel the promotion.

From the tool's definition Tool name contains 'create' and description states 'Create item price markdown promotion through the eBay Marketing API', indicating the tool creates a new marketing promotion object that modifies pricing strategy.

The rule that runs ebay_create_item_price_markdown_promotion safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Ebay, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For ebay_create_item_price_markdown_promotion, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "ebay_create_item_price_markdown_promotion": {
      "limits": [
        {
          "counter": "ebay_create_item_price_markdown_promotion_rate",
          "window": "minute",
          "max": 30,
          "scope": "grant"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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