Search for people or organizations by name across federal Congress and campaign committees.
AI agents call search_entities 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 performs a search operation to find and return publicly available information about people and organizations in legislative and campaign contexts. It retrieves existing data without creating, modifying, deleting, executing code, or committing financial transactions. Search operations are inherently non-destructive reads with minimal blast radius even if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Search for people or organizations by name' - this is a retrieval/query operation with no modification or execution capabilities.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Search for people or organizations by name across federal Congress and campaign committees. 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_entities: 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_entities 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_entities 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_entities. 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_entities 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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Type a name, get the same breakdown: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, capabilities, recommended policy.
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