Retrieve comprehensive financial summary for a campaign committee from official FEC filings. Returns total receipts, disbursements, cash on hand, debts, loans (including candidate loans), and calculates burn rate (spending/income ratio). Includes Schedule C loans and Schedule D debts for complete...
AI agents call get_committee_finances to retrieve information from Fec without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves pre-existing campaign finance data from official FEC records without modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It performs read-only analysis (burn rate calculation) on publicly available data. The low severity reflects that misuse would only expose already-public campaign finance information, with no destructive or financial transaction capabilities.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states it 'Retrieve[s] comprehensive financial summary' and 'Returns' aggregated financial data from FEC filings. Key verbs are retrieval-focused: 'Retrieve', 'Returns', 'calculates' (analysis only).
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Retrieve comprehensive financial summary for a campaign committee from official FEC filings. Returns total receipts, disbursements, cash on hand, debts, loans (including candidate loans), and calculates burn rate (spending/income ratio). Includes Schedule C loans and Schedule D debts for complete financial picture. Essential for understanding campaign financial health and transparency research. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Fec MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Fec MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_committee_finances: 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. Nothing to install.
get_committee_finances 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_committee_finances 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_committee_finances. 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_committee_finances is provided by the Fec MCP server (sh-patterson/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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