cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state

Get per-US-state consumer complaint counts from the CFPB complaint database, with each state's top complaint products and issues, optionally filtered by date range, product, or company. Useful for geographic analysis of consumer financial complaints. Data: consumerfinance.gov (CFPB), no auth requ...

SERVERApibase SOURCEapibase-mcp-client

Low RISK CLASS

Category Read

Parameters 40 required

Recommended Allowedsee the rule below

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This record as markdown: /tools/io-github-whiteknightonhorse-apibase/cfpb-complaints.complaints.by-state.md

WHAT IT DOES

What cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state does on Apibase

AI agents call cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state to retrieve information from Apibase 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
`company`	string	—	Exact registered company name as CFPB records it, typically uppercase with legal suffix (e.g. "EQUIFAX, INC.", "WELLS FARGO & COMPANY", "BANK OF AMERICA, NATION
`product`	string	—	Exact CFPB product category — must match verbatim, e.g. "Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports", "Debt collection", "Mortgage", "Checking or savin
`date_received_max`	string	—	Only count complaints received on/before this date, format YYYY-MM-DD.
`date_received_min`	string	—	Only count complaints received on/after this date, format YYYY-MM-DD.

Parameters from the server's own tool schema.

RISK

Why cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state is rated Low

Retrieves public complaint statistics with no side effects or data modification capability.

From the tool's definition Get per-US-state consumer complaint counts from CFPB complaint database, no auth required.

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RECOMMENDED RULE

The rule that runs cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state, this is the rule to start with:

cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state Allowed

cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.

View as policy code

policy.json

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state": {}
  }
}

ALLOW ONLY THIS TOOL → Instant setup, no code required.

The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state call is checked against it from then on.

FAQ

Questions about cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state

What does the cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state tool do? +

What parameters does cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state accept? +

cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state accepts 4 parameters: company, product, date_received_max, date_received_min. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.

How do I enforce a policy on cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state? +

Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state: 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 Apibase. Nothing to install.

What risk level is cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state? +

cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.

Can I rate-limit cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state? +

Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state 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.

How do I block cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state completely? +

Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state. 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.

What MCP server provides cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state? +

cfpb-complaints.complaints.by_state is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.

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