Get legislator information including party, role, district, and third-party IDs (VoteSmart, OpenSecrets, Ballotpedia, FollowTheMoney).
AI agents call legiscan_get_person 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 public legislative data about legislators without side effects. It queries and returns information about elected officials' public attributes and references to external databases. Retrieval of public legislative and electoral data poses minimal risk; there are no irreversible actions, code execution, data modification, or financial implications.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Get[s] legislator information' and lists retrievable fields (party, role, district, third-party IDs). No modification, deletion, execution, or financial operations are mentioned or implied.
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Get legislator information including party, role, district, and third-party IDs (VoteSmart, OpenSecrets, Ballotpedia, FollowTheMoney). 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_person: 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_person 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_person 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_person. 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_person 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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