get_interest_category

What get_interest_category does on UK Parliament MCP Server

AI agents call get_interest_category 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_interest_category is rated Low

The tool name and server context strongly suggest this retrieves interest category information, likely for MPs, Lords, or other parliamentary members. No description is provided, which reduces confidence slightly, but the naming convention and sibling tools all indicate read-only data retrieval with no data modification, deletion, or external effects. This falls clearly into the Read category with low risk.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_interest_category' suggests retrieval of categorization data. The sibling tools (bill_stages, browse_erskine_may_index, get_amendment_by_id, get_act_of_parliament, check_mp_vote) are all read-only queries of UK Parliament data.

The rule that runs get_interest_category 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_interest_category, this is the rule to start with:

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

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