List itemized federal campaign contributions from OpenFEC.
AI agents call recent_contributions 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 publicly available campaign contribution data from OpenFEC (a public federal election database). It performs no writes, deletions, code execution, or financial transactions. The data is already public and the tool merely searches/retrieves it. Misuse would be limited to information gathering, which poses low risk.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'recent_contributions' and description 'List itemized federal campaign contributions' indicate data retrieval with no modification, deletion, or execution of external operations. The verb 'list' confirms read-only operation.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
List itemized federal campaign contributions from OpenFEC. 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_contributions: 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_contributions 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_contributions 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_contributions. 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_contributions 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.
Every MCP server has a record like this.
Type a name, get the same breakdown: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, capabilities, recommended policy.
Teams ship this data inside their own products. See what a licence covers →