FEC Schedule A — itemized contributions to federal political committees (>264M rows). Filter by recipient committeeId/candidateId, contributor name/city/state/zip/employer/occupation, amount + date ranges, cycle, isIndividual. Sort by date or amount.
AI agents call gov.fec-contributions 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 tool retrieves and queries existing public FEC contribution data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any side effects. It is a read-only data retrieval tool. While the data relates to political contributions, the tool itself does not move money, process payments, or create financial obligations—it only searches and filters already-recorded public records.
From the tool's definition Tool queries FEC Schedule A data with filter and sort operations ("Filter by", "Sort by"). No modification, deletion, or financial transaction capabilities described. Returns publicly available political contribution records.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
FEC Schedule A — itemized contributions to federal political committees (>264M rows). Filter by recipient committeeId/candidateId, contributor name/city/state/zip/employer/occupation, amount + date ranges, cycle, isIndividual. Sort by date or amount. 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-contributions: 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-contributions 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-contributions 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-contributions. 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-contributions 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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