gov.congress-nomination
US presidential nominations (cabinet, judicial, executive) sent to the Senate for confirmation (Congress.gov). Pass congress+number for single nomination; or filter by congress + date range.
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What gov.congress-nomination does on Mcp
AI agents call gov.congress-nomination to retrieve information from Mcp without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why gov.congress-nomination is rated Low
This tool provides read-only access to public congressional nomination records. It retrieves and filters existing data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any actions. The filtering parameters indicate data lookup operations typical of a search/query interface. No side effects or irreversible operations are possible.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves US presidential nominations data from Congress.gov. Description indicates query/filter operations ("Pass congress+number for single nomination; or filter by congress + date range") with no modification, deletion, or execution capabilities.
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The rule that runs gov.congress-nomination safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Mcp, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For gov.congress-nomination, this is the rule to start with:
gov.congress-nomination is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Mcp, apply this rule, and every gov.congress-nomination call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about gov.congress-nomination
US presidential nominations (cabinet, judicial, executive) sent to the Senate for confirmation (Congress.gov). Pass congress+number for single nomination; or filter by congress + date range. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for gov.congress-nomination: 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 Mcp. Nothing to install.
gov.congress-nomination is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the gov.congress-nomination 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 gov.congress-nomination. 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.
gov.congress-nomination is provided by the MCP server (@2sio/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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