Fetch full detail for a single state bill including actions, versions,
AI agents call get_bill 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 legislative bill data without any side effects. It queries and returns information about bills, their actions, and versions. There is no capability to modify, delete, execute code, or move money. This is a straightforward read operation accessing public legislative data.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'get_bill' and description states 'Fetch full detail for a single state bill including actions, versions' — purely a retrieval operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of code/commands.
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Fetch full detail for a single state bill including actions, versions,. 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 get_bill: 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.
get_bill 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_bill 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_bill. 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_bill 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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