get_hansard_sitting_day

What get_hansard_sitting_day does on UK Parliament MCP Server

AI agents call get_hansard_sitting_day to retrieve information from UK Parliament MCP Server without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why get_hansard_sitting_day is rated Low

This tool queries historical parliamentary sitting day information from Hansard (the official record of parliamentary debates). This is a read-only retrieval operation with no side effects, data modification, or destructive capability. Even if misused, it merely returns publicly available parliamentary records, posing minimal risk. Classification as Read with low severity is appropriate.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_hansard_sitting_day' indicates retrieval of Hansard (parliamentary record) data about sitting days. The server description states it 'Query[s]...debates' and other parliamentary data, establishing this as a data retrieval function.

The rule that runs get_hansard_sitting_day safely

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

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "get_hansard_sitting_day": {}
  }
}

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