Get detailed bill information including sponsors, full history, votes, texts, amendments, and supplements. This is the primary tool for bill research.
AI agents call legiscan_get_bill to retrieve information from LegiScan 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 queries legislative bill data from a public API without side effects. It does not create, modify, delete, or execute any operations. Even if misused by an AI agent, it can only fetch public legislative records, which poses minimal harm. The blast radius is limited to information disclosure of already-public data.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Get[s] detailed bill information including sponsors, full history, votes, texts, amendments, and supplements' — all retrieval operations with no modification, deletion, or execution capability.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get detailed bill information including sponsors, full history, votes, texts, amendments, and supplements. This is the primary tool for bill research. It is categorised as a Read tool in the LegiScan MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the LegiScan MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for legiscan_get_bill: 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 LegiScan MCP Server. Nothing to install.
legiscan_get_bill 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 legiscan_get_bill 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 legiscan_get_bill. 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.
legiscan_get_bill is provided by the LegiScan MCP Server MCP server (sh-patterson/legiscan-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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