cfpb_search_complaints
Search the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database (4M+ complaints submitted against financial companies since 2011). Filter by free-text term, company, product, state, date range, and narrative-presence. Returns complaint metadata plus public narratives when available.
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What cfpb_search_complaints does on Livedatalink
AI agents call cfpb_search_complaints to retrieve information from Livedatalink without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
from | number | — | Pagination offset (default 0) |
size | number | — | Page size (default 25, max 100) |
state | string | — | Two-letter state code |
company | string | — | Exact company name (use cfpb_suggest_company for fuzzy matching) |
product | string | — | CFPB product category (e.g. 'Credit reporting', 'Mortgage', 'Debt collection') |
search_term | string | — | Free-text search across all complaint fields |
has_narrative | boolean | — | Only complaints with consumer narratives |
date_received_max | string | — | YYYY-MM-DD upper bound |
date_received_min | string | — | YYYY-MM-DD lower bound |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why cfpb_search_complaints is rated Low
This tool retrieves historical complaint data from a public CFPB database with no side effects. It performs a query operation that does not modify data, execute code, or affect financial systems. While the underlying data concerns consumer complaints against financial companies, the tool itself only enables information retrieval. The ability to filter and search does not elevate the category beyond Read.
From the tool's definition The tool 'searches' and 'returns' complaint metadata and narratives from a public database. The description uses read-only verbs: 'search', 'filter', 'returns'. No creation, modification, deletion, execution, or financial operations are described.
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The rule that runs cfpb_search_complaints safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Livedatalink, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For cfpb_search_complaints, this is the rule to start with:
cfpb_search_complaints 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 Livedatalink, apply this rule, and every cfpb_search_complaints call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about cfpb_search_complaints
Search the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database (4M+ complaints submitted against financial companies since 2011). Filter by free-text term, company, product, state, date range, and narrative-presence. Returns complaint metadata plus public narratives when available. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Livedatalink MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
cfpb_search_complaints accepts 9 parameters: from, size, state, company, product, search_term, has_narrative, date_received_max, date_received_min. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Livedatalink MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for cfpb_search_complaints: 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 Livedatalink. Nothing to install.
cfpb_search_complaints 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 cfpb_search_complaints 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 cfpb_search_complaints. 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.
cfpb_search_complaints is provided by the Livedatalink MCP server (https://livedatalink.ai/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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