AI agents call search_cantonal_affairs to retrieve information from Mcp Swiss without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries public parliamentary data from Swiss cantons. It retrieves information without creating, modifying, or deleting any data. The operation is read-only and has no financial, destructive, or execution implications. Low severity reflects minimal risk even if an agent misuses search parameters, as the blast radius is limited to information disclosure of already-public political data.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_cantonal_affairs' and description 'Search political affairs across Swiss cantonal parliaments' indicate a query/retrieval operation. Verb 'search' is a read-only operation. No modifications, deletions, or external side effects described.
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Search political affairs across Swiss cantonal parliaments (Kantonsräte). Covers all 26 cantons via OpenParlData. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Swiss MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Swiss MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_cantonal_affairs: 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 Mcp Swiss. Nothing to install.
search_cantonal_affairs 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_cantonal_affairs 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_cantonal_affairs. 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_cantonal_affairs is provided by the Mcp Swiss MCP server (mcp-swiss). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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