nihreporter.projects.by_pi
Find NIH-funded research projects by principal investigator (PI) last name. Optionally narrow by first name, fiscal year, or active status. Returns the researcher's funded projects with award amounts, institutions, titles, and abstract excerpts. Useful for biosketches, grant history lookups, and ...
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What nihreporter.projects.by_pi does on Apibase
AI agents call nihreporter.projects.by_pi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
limit | integer | — | Number of results to return (1–25, default 10) |
offset | integer | — | Pagination offset — number of results to skip (default 0) |
is_active | boolean | — | When true, return only currently active/ongoing projects |
last_name | string | Yes | Principal investigator last name (e.g. "BHATT", "FAUCI", "COLLINS"). Case-insensitive, automatically uppercased. |
first_name | string | — | Principal investigator first name for disambiguation (optional, automatically uppercased) |
fiscal_year | integer | — | Fiscal year to filter (e.g. 2024). NIH fiscal year runs Oct 1 – Sep 30 |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why nihreporter.projects.by_pi is rated Low
Tool queries public NIH funding database; retrieves information with no side effects or data modification.
From the tool's definition Find NIH-funded research projects, returns researcher's funded projects with award amounts.
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The rule that runs nihreporter.projects.by_pi 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 nihreporter.projects.by_pi, this is the rule to start with:
nihreporter.projects.by_pi 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 Apibase, apply this rule, and every nihreporter.projects.by_pi call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about nihreporter.projects.by_pi
Find NIH-funded research projects by principal investigator (PI) last name. Optionally narrow by first name, fiscal year, or active status. Returns the researcher's funded projects with award amounts, institutions, titles, and abstract excerpts. Useful for biosketches, grant history lookups, and conflict-of-interest checks. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
nihreporter.projects.by_pi accepts 6 parameters: limit, offset, is_active, last_name, first_name, fiscal_year. Required: last_name. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for nihreporter.projects.by_pi: 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.
nihreporter.projects.by_pi 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 nihreporter.projects.by_pi 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 nihreporter.projects.by_pi. 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.
nihreporter.projects.by_pi 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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