Search US federal political committees (PACs, super PACs, party committees, candidate principal committees) via OpenFEC. Filter by q, committeeId, candidateId, committeeType, designation, state, party, cycle, organizationType.
AI agents call gov.fec-committee 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 data retrieval tool that queries public Federal Election Commission data. It has no side effects, creates no modifications, executes no code, and carries no financial implications. The filtering parameters are all read-only query constraints. Even though political data can be sensitive, the tool itself is purely informational retrieval from a public government database, presenting minimal risk of misuse.
From the tool's definition Tool performs a search across US federal political committee data via OpenFEC with filter parameters (q, committeeId, candidateId, committeeType, designation, state, party, cycle, organizationType).
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Search US federal political committees (PACs, super PACs, party committees, candidate principal committees) via OpenFEC. Filter by q, committeeId, candidateId, committeeType, designation, state, party, cycle, organizationType. 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.fec-committee: 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.fec-committee 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.fec-committee 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.fec-committee. 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.fec-committee 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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