Get recent stock trades by US Congress members (House and Senate). Filterable by ticker.
AI agents call get_congressional_trades to retrieve information from Lynx Mi/lynx Mi 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 or legally accessible congressional stock trade data. It performs a read-only operation with no side effects, no code execution, no data modification, and no financial transactions. Filtering by ticker is a standard query parameter that does not change the read-only nature.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_congressional_trades' and description 'Get recent stock trades by US Congress members' indicate data retrieval with no modification, deletion, or execution of code.
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Get recent stock trades by US Congress members (House and Senate). Filterable by ticker. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Lynx Mi/lynx Mi MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Lynx Mi/lynx Mi MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_congressional_trades: 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 Lynx Mi/lynx Mi. Nothing to install.
get_congressional_trades 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_congressional_trades 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_congressional_trades. 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_congressional_trades is provided by the Lynx Mi/lynx Mi MCP server (lynx-mi/lynx-mi-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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