Check a campaign committee for compliance red flags including RFAIs (Requests for Additional Information from the FEC) and amended filings. Essential for identifying campaign finance compliance issues that merit closer research review.
AI agents call get_committee_flags 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 FEC campaign finance compliance data to surface red flags and filing amendments. It has no capability to create, modify, delete, or execute code. It presents minimal risk as a read-only operation that retrieves factual compliance information from a public database. The information returned may inform downstream decisions, but the tool itself only performs retrieval.
From the tool's definition The tool 'get_committee_flags' is described as checking a campaign committee for compliance red flags and RFAIs—it retrieves and queries compliance status data.
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Check a campaign committee for compliance red flags including RFAIs (Requests for Additional Information from the FEC) and amended filings. Essential for identifying campaign finance compliance issues that merit closer research review. 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_flags: 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_flags 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_flags 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_flags. 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_flags 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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