Search individual US Congress member stock trades parsed from STOCK Act PTRs into clean rows. Filter by member (q), ticker (e.g. NVDA), type (purchase|sale|exchange), state, chamber, or transaction-date range. Each trade: member + state/district, owner (self/spouse/joint), ticker + asset, buy/sel...
AI agents call gov.congress-trades to retrieve information from Mcp without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This is a read-only data retrieval tool that searches and filters public congressional trading records. It has no write, execute, destructive, or financial capabilities—it merely presents already-public information that has been parsed and organized. The data is sourced from public STOCK Act filings. No side effects or state changes occur from using this tool.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Search individual US Congress member stock trades' and 'Filter by member, ticker, type, state, chamber, or transaction-date range.' The tool retrieves and queries publicly disclosed trade data with no modification capability ('parsed…
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Search individual US Congress member stock trades parsed from STOCK Act PTRs into clean rows. Filter by member (q), ticker (e.g. NVDA), type (purchase|sale|exchange), state, chamber, or transaction-date range. Each trade: member + state/district, owner (self/spouse/joint), ticker + asset, buy/sell, the disclosed dollar RANGE (amountMin/amountMax — ranges, not exact), transaction + disclosure dates, days-to-disclose, and a link to the source filing. envelope total answers. 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-trades: 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-trades 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-trades 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-trades. 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-trades 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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