Browse recent CRS (Congressional Research Service) bill summaries — plain-language summaries of bills at each legislative stage, useful for answering "what's happening in Congress?". The fromDateTime/toDateTime filters apply to the summary's update time (lastSummaryUpdateDate), not the bill's act...
Part of the Congressgov server.
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AI agents use congressgov_bill_summaries to create or modify resources in Congressgov. Write operations carry medium risk because an autonomous agent could trigger bulk unintended modifications. Rate limits prevent a single agent session from making hundreds of changes in rapid succession. Argument validation ensures the agent passes expected values.
Without a policy, an AI agent could call congressgov_bill_summaries repeatedly, creating or modifying resources faster than any human could review. PolicyLayer's rate limiting ensures write operations happen at a controlled pace, and argument validation catches malformed or unexpected inputs before they reach Congressgov.
Write tools can modify data. A rate limit prevents runaway bulk operations from AI agents.
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"congressgov_bill_summaries": {
"limits": [
{
"counter": "congressgov_bill_summaries_rate",
"window": "minute",
"max": 30,
"scope": "grant"
}
]
}
}
}See the full Congressgov policy for all 10 tools.
These attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access congressgov_bill_summaries gives an agent. Each links to the full case and the policy that stops it:
Other write tools across the catalogue. The same approach applies to each: rate-limit and validate the arguments.
Browse recent CRS (Congressional Research Service) bill summaries — plain-language summaries of bills at each legislative stage, useful for answering "what's happening in Congress?". The fromDateTime/toDateTime filters apply to the summary's update time (lastSummaryUpdateDate), not the bill's action date, so results include recently rewritten summaries of older bills. Defaults to summaries updated in the last 7 days. Each item shows both the bill's action date and the summary update date.. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Congressgov MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Register the Congressgov MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for congressgov_bill_summaries: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Congressgov. Nothing to install.
congressgov_bill_summaries is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the congressgov_bill_summaries rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for congressgov_bill_summaries. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
congressgov_bill_summaries is provided by the Congressgov MCP server (cyanheads/congressgov-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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