List recently-updated U.S. federal legislative bills from Congress.gov.
AI agents call recent_bills 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 queries and retrieves public legislative data from Congress.gov without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. The blast radius of misuse is minimal — an agent could retrieve unwanted legislative information, but cannot alter data or trigger side effects. Classified as Read/low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'List recently-updated U.S. federal legislative bills' — a retrieval operation with no modification capability. Name 'recent_bills' and action verb 'List' confirm read-only behavior.
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List recently-updated U.S. federal legislative bills from Congress.gov. 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 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 Civic Awareness. Nothing to install.
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 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 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.
recent_bills 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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