Get the most recently introduced bills in Congress
AI agents call get_recent_bills to retrieve information from Us Legal without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves publicly available legislative information without any side effects. It performs a read-only operation similar to a search or list function. The data retrieved (recently introduced bills) is factual, non-sensitive government information. No blast radius from misuse exists, as the tool cannot modify state, execute commands, or affect external systems.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_recent_bills' and description 'Get the most recently introduced bills in Congress' indicate a retrieval operation with no modification, creation, or deletion of data.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_recent_bills gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Us Legal, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_recent_bills:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_recent_bills": {}
}
}get_recent_bills is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get the most recently introduced bills in Congress. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Us Legal MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Us Legal MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_recent_bills: 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 Us Legal. Nothing to install.
get_recent_bills 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 get_recent_bills 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 get_recent_bills. 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.
get_recent_bills is provided by the Us Legal MCP server (jamesanz/us-legal-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Us Legal, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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