Get contribution totals aggregated by state - useful for geographic analysis.
AI agents call get_contributions_by_state to retrieve information from FEC Campaign Finance MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and aggregates publicly available campaign finance data without creating, modifying, executing, or deleting anything. It is a read-only query operation with minimal security risk—the data returned is already public FEC information. No side effects or irreversible actions are possible.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'Get contribution totals aggregated by state' and 'useful for geographic analysis'. The verb 'Get' and the aggregation/analysis purpose indicate data retrieval with no modification or execution.
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Get contribution totals aggregated by state - useful for geographic analysis. It is categorised as a Read tool in the FEC Campaign Finance MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the FEC Campaign Finance MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_contributions_by_state: 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 FEC Campaign Finance MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_contributions_by_state 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_contributions_by_state 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_contributions_by_state. 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_contributions_by_state is provided by the FEC Campaign Finance MCP Server MCP server (reichaves/fec-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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