Polymarket Trading Setup
WarnAudited by ClawScan on May 10, 2026.
Overview
This is a disclosed Polymarket trading guide, but it asks the agent to handle wallet keys and submit live financial approvals/orders without clear confirmation safeguards.
Only use this with a dedicated, minimally funded Polymarket wallet. Before letting an agent run any setup step, require it to ask for confirmation before approvals or orders, use bounded USDC allowances, pin dependencies, protect the .env file, and verify that no secrets are printed or committed.
Findings (4)
Artifact-based informational review of SKILL.md, metadata, install specs, static scan signals, and capability signals. ClawScan does not execute the skill or run runtime probes.
An agent following the skill could place a real order using the user's funded Polymarket wallet, causing financial exposure or unwanted trades.
The skill directs the agent to create, sign, and post a live Polymarket order as part of setup verification. Even if intended as a low-risk test, it is a real financial action and the instructions do not clearly require a final user confirmation before submission.
Place a 2-share order at a far-from-market price ... signed = client.create_order(order) resp = client.post_order(signed, OrderType.FAK)
Require an explicit user approval step before any order or on-chain transaction, prefer dry-run or paper-trading checks first, and enforce small user-confirmed limits for any live test.
Anyone or any agent with these values may be able to authenticate and trade through the user's Polymarket setup.
The skill requires a wallet private key and Polymarket API credentials. These are expected for automated trading, but they grant sensitive account and trading authority.
POLYMARKET_PRIVATE_KEY, POLYMARKET_PUBLIC_ADDRESS, POLYMARKET_PROXY_ADDRESS, POLYMARKET_SIGNATURE_TYPE, POLYMARKET_API_KEY, POLYMARKET_API_SECRET, POLYMARKET_API_PASSPHRASE
Use a dedicated minimally funded wallet, keep .env out of version control, avoid logging secrets, rotate credentials if exposed, and do not reuse a wallet that holds unrelated funds.
A broad or unbounded approval could allow future spending of approved USDC without another setup step, increasing loss if credentials, contracts, or automation are misused.
The guide acknowledges that USDC approvals can persist and grant ongoing spend rights. This is relevant to the trading purpose and the guide recommends bounded amounts, but users should understand the lasting effect.
Unbounded approvals are convenient but grant the contract permanent spend rights.
Use bounded approvals sized to the intended trading limit, review the spender contract addresses, and know how to revoke approvals after use.
A future dependency change or compromised package could affect the trading environment if installed without review.
The skill asks users to install public Python packages with partially unpinned version ranges. This is normal for a setup guide, but dependency versions are not fully locked.
pip install "py-clob-client>=0.28.0" httpx "websocket-client>=1.9.0" orjson pandas python-dotenv
Install in a virtual environment, pin and review dependency versions, and prefer a lockfile for any production trading bot.