Given an entity ID, return co-occurrence edges to other entities via
AI agents call entity_connections to retrieve information from Civic Awareness 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 relationships between legislative entities (likely tracking connections between politicians, organizations, contributions, etc.). It is read-only; it does not create, modify, delete, or execute any operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an adversary cannot cause harm beyond accessing already-public or authorized civic data relationships. This aligns with the 'Read' category.
From the tool's definition Tool description indicates it 'return[s] co-occurrence edges to other entities' — a retrieval and analysis operation with no modification, deletion, or code execution capability. The incomplete description ('via') suggests a lookup/graph traversal function.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Given an entity ID, return co-occurrence edges to other entities via. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Civic Awareness MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Civic Awareness MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for entity_connections: 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 Civic Awareness. Nothing to install.
entity_connections 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 entity_connections 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 entity_connections. 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.
entity_connections is provided by the Civic Awareness MCP server (julianken/civic-awareness-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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