Search civic documents (U.S. federal bills, votes, and campaign contributions) by title.
AI agents call search_civic_documents 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 publicly available US legislative and campaign contribution data without side effects. It is a search/query operation that does not create, modify, delete, or execute any actions. The low severity reflects that misuse would only expose information that is already public, with minimal blast radius for an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states 'Search civic documents' and parameters enable querying by title. No modification, deletion, execution, or financial operations are performed. Returns legislative data for informational purposes only.
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Search civic documents (U.S. federal bills, votes, and campaign contributions) by title. 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 search_civic_documents: 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.
search_civic_documents 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 search_civic_documents 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 search_civic_documents. 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.
search_civic_documents 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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