democracy_search_votes
AI agents call democracy_search_votes to retrieve information from Pypi:swiss Democracy without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool appears to search or query Swiss direct democracy voting data. While the description is empty (lowering confidence slightly), the name suggests a search operation over immutable historical records, consistent with all sibling tools being read-only accessors. No modification, deletion, or external action is indicated.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'democracy_search_votes' combined with context that all sibling tools are read-only data retrieval functions (get_vote_results, list_vote_dates, get_cantonal_results, get_party_positions, get_vote_detail, list_vote_dates, get_votation_detail,…
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democracy_search_votes. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Pypi:swiss Democracy MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Pypi:swiss Democracy MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for democracy_search_votes: 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 Pypi:swiss Democracy. Nothing to install.
democracy_search_votes 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 democracy_search_votes 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 democracy_search_votes. 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.
democracy_search_votes is provided by the Pypi:swiss Democracy MCP server (pypi:swiss-democracy-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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