Polymarket Query

A read-only skill for researching Polymarket prediction markets (it never places orders). It covers two needs:

• Market research: hot events, search, event detail, historical price and

probability/volume trends.

• Positions & whale tracking: leaderboard, any address's positions and P&L,

and trade history.

To actually buy/sell (place orders, cancel, balances, order management), use the `polymarket-trade` skill.

Quick start

1. Check the environment: bash, curl, jq, and access to

gamma-api.polymarket.com / data-api.polymarket.com / clob.polymarket.com.

1. Pick a task type: market info / whales & positions / historical trends.
2. Run the matching command: bash <skill-dir>/scripts/polymarket.sh <command> [args...].

Full command list: references/commands.md. Troubleshooting: references/troubleshooting.md.

Choosing a command

• Quick market heat: hot [limit].
• Find markets by keyword: search <keyword> [limit].
• Inspect an event by slug (with tokens): detail <event-slug>.
• Track top traders / check positions: leaderboard (alias lb) → positions

(alias pos) → trades.

• Only open positions: positions <address> [limit] --active.
• Your own wallet: with POLYMARKET_FUNDER (or FUNDER) set, positions /

trades default to it when no address is given. Use your proxy wallet address (the one holding funds/positions), not the signer/EOA.

• Time-series review:
• Probability table: history
• Start/end change summary: trend
• Volume changes: volume-trend
• File export: add --format csv|json and optional --out <file> to

history/trend/volume-trend.

Minimal examples

# 1) Hot markets
bash <skill-dir>/scripts/polymarket.sh hot 5

# 2) Search + detail
bash <skill-dir>/scripts/polymarket.sh search bitcoin 5
bash <skill-dir>/scripts/polymarket.sh detail fed-decision-in-march-885

# 3) Whale & position tracking
bash <skill-dir>/scripts/polymarket.sh lb 10 pnl week
bash <skill-dir>/scripts/polymarket.sh pos 0xc257ea... 10
bash <skill-dir>/scripts/polymarket.sh pos 0xc257ea... 10 --active   # open only
bash <skill-dir>/scripts/polymarket.sh trades 0xc257ea... 10

# 4) Historical trends + export
bash <skill-dir>/scripts/polymarket.sh history fed-decision-in-march-885 2025-01-01 2025-01-31 1d
bash <skill-dir>/scripts/polymarket.sh trend fed-decision-in-march-885 2025-01-01 2025-01-31 --format csv
bash <skill-dir>/scripts/polymarket.sh volume-trend fed-decision-in-march-885 2025-01-01 2025-01-31 --format json --out /tmp/volume.json

Parameter rules: from/to are YYYY-MM-DD; interval is 1h / 4h / 1d.

Common failures

• Missing dependencies: install curl / jq.
• Network failures: check API reachability and timeouts; raise CURL_TIMEOUT if

needed. In a proxy environment, HTTPS_PROXY is auto-detected.

• Historical price failures: check POLYMARKET_BEARER_TOKEN or a credentials

file (see below).

• Argument errors: re-check command usage and the date format (YYYY-MM-DD).

Credentials (only the historical-price endpoint needs one)

The historical-price endpoint may require a bearer token. It is resolved in this order (agent-neutral, not tied to any runtime):

1. POLYMARKET_BEARER_TOKEN environment variable
2. the file named by POLYMARKET_CREDENTIALS_FILE
3. ./.credentials in the project directory (should be gitignored)
4. ~/.config/holo-polymarket/credentials
5. ~/.openclaw/credentials/polymarket_credentials (legacy fallback)

The credentials file is KEY=VALUE and supports the BEARER_TOKEN / TOKEN fields.

The same file (or env) may also provide POLYMARKET_FUNDER / FUNDER — your own proxy wallet address. When set, positions / trades default to it if no address is given on the command line. This is the only identity the query skill reads; everything else here is read-only and public.

Trading boundary

This skill is read-only and never places orders. For buying/selling, cancelling, balances, and order management, use the `polymarket-trade` skill (built on the official CLOB API).