get_publication_types

What get_publication_types does on UK Parliament MCP Server

AI agents call get_publication_types 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_publication_types is rated Low

The tool name and context suggest it retrieves and lists types of parliamentary publications (likely for filtering or querying purposes). This is a non-destructive, non-mutating query operation. The empty description lowers confidence slightly, but the pattern of similarly-named Read tools on the server and the 'get_' prefix support Read classification.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_publication_types' indicates a retrieval operation that queries metadata about publication types within the UK Parliament system, consistent with sister tools like 'bill_types' and 'browse_erskine_may_index' which are all Read operations.

The rule that runs get_publication_types 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_publication_types, this is the rule to start with:

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

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