Polymarket Tennis

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Asked for a Polymarket tennis bot
• A Kalshi tennis trading bot
• Tennis prediction-market data
• Gamma API tennis markets

Example prompts

• “/polymarket-tennis”

Requirements

• Python 3
• A credential in LIVETENNIS_API_KEY
• A credential in LIVETENNISAPI_KEY
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Python 3.10+, pip install polymarket-tennis (single runtime dependency httpx). Live match data needs a free Live Tennis API key in LIVETENNIS_API_KEY; Polymarket Gamma and Kalshi market reads are keyless.

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Observe-only. Never add order placement, wallet, private-key, or CLOB code to
2. 2Never hard-code a settlement rule. Retirement and walkover payouts differ by
3. 3Respect the free tier: 30 requests/minute, 100 requests/day. Every
4. 4Detect match endings with outcome and event_status, not status.
5. 5Never guess a market-to-match pairing. match_market returns None on
6. 6Tests stay offline. Use trimmed fixtures and httpx.MockTransport; never

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b52784f. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • pip
  • ruff

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • livetennisapi.com

  Also links to:

  • blog.livetennisapi.com
  • github.com
  • docs.livetennisapi.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • LIVETENNIS_API_KEY
  • LIVETENNISAPI_KEY

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Python 3.10+, pip install polymarket-tennis (single runtime dependency httpx). Live match data needs a free Live Tennis API key in LIVETENNIS_API_KEY; Polymarket Gamma and Kalshi market reads are keyless.

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Polymarket Tennis loads about 3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~8.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 200 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,085 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~200

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~8.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from livetennisapi/livetennisapi-mcp at commit b52784f, republished under its MIT licence (© livetennisapi). 1,085 words, ~3,032 tokens.

name

polymarket-tennis

description

Build observe-only Polymarket and Kalshi tennis market tooling on the polymarket-tennis Python package (MIT) plus the Live Tennis API free tier. Use when asked for a Polymarket tennis bot or market watcher, a Kalshi tennis trading bot, tennis prediction-market data, Gamma API tennis markets, matching a market to a live match, break-point or serving state next to market prices, or how a tennis retirement, walkover, or cancelled match settles (venue rule text, never hard-coded). Covers the real package API (GammaClient, LiveTennisClient, discover_tennis_markets, match_market, build_view, pmtennis CLI), the free-tier request budget (30/min, 100/day), the outcome and event_status fields, and the verbatim 2026 settlement matrix. No order execution, wallets, or strategy advice.

compatibility

Python 3.10+, pip install polymarket-tennis (single runtime dependency httpx). Live match data needs a free Live Tennis API key in LIVETENNIS_API_KEY; Polymarket Gamma and Kalshi market reads are keyless.

license

MIT

metadata.author

Live Tennis API (hello@livetennisapi.com)

metadata.version

0.1.0

metadata.homepage

https://github.com/livetennisapi/polymarket-tennis

metadata.attribution

Vendor-authored. The live-score side of every join comes from the Live Tennis API; judge accordingly.

pip install polymarket-tennis          # Python 3.10+, depends only on httpx
pmtennis discover --matches-only --moneyline-only   # keyless, Gamma only
export LIVETENNIS_API_KEY=ltapi_...    # free, no card: https://livetennisapi.com/subscribe/free
pmtennis match atp-lehecka-fils-2026-08-17          # show the pairing decision + confidence
pmtennis watch atp-lehecka-fils-2026-08-17          # 1 request per poll, 60 s default

from polymarket_tennis import (
    GammaClient, LiveTennisClient,
    discover_tennis_markets, match_market, build_view,
)

with GammaClient() as gamma, LiveTennisClient() as lta:
    markets = discover_tennis_markets(gamma, market_types={"moneyline"},
                                      matches_only=True)
    candidates = lta.live_matches() + lta.fixtures()   # 2 free-tier requests
    for market in markets:
        decision = match_market(market, candidates)
        if decision is None:
            continue  # ambiguous or no live counterpart — never guessed
        view = build_view(market, decision.match)
        print(view.render())

Cincinnati Open: Jiri Lehecka vs Arthur Fils  [atp-lehecka-fils-2026-08-17]
  market: Jiri Lehecka 0.095 | Arthur Fils 0.905  (as of 12s ago)
  live:   Jiri Lehecka vs Arthur Fils  4-6 3-4 (15-40)  serving: Jiri Lehecka  [BREAK POINT]  (as of 8s ago)

def settlement_text(view) -> str:
    raw = view.market.raw
    text = raw.get("description") or raw.get("rules_secondary")
    return text or "(market payload carries no settlement text; read it on the venue)"

© livetennisapi, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/polymarket-tennis of livetennisapi/livetennisapi-mcp.

• SKILL.md
• references/api.md
• references/one-prompt-build.md
• references/settlement-rules.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b52784f

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders. This page covers the copy in livetennisapi/livetennisapi-mcp, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• livetennisapi/polymarket-tennisskills/polymarket-tennis