Get only bills where a legislator is the PRIMARY author, not co-sponsor. Use find_legislator first to get people_id from a name. Pass state or session_id when you want results scoped to a specific legislature and timeframe; otherwise this returns all available sessions for that legislator.
AI agents call legiscan_get_primary_authored 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 is a straightforward query operation that searches and retrieves legislative data (bills authored by a specific legislator). It performs no writes, deletions, or external operations. The data returned is public legislative information. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—worst case scenario would be retrieving all bills authored by a legislator, which is already publicly available information.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves bills where a legislator is the primary author. Description uses "Get" and "returns" language indicating data retrieval with no modification, creation, or deletion. No side effects or state changes.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get only bills where a legislator is the PRIMARY author, not co-sponsor. Use find_legislator first to get people_id from a name. Pass state or session_id when you want results scoped to a specific legislature and timeframe; otherwise this returns all available sessions for that legislator. 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_primary_authored: 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_primary_authored 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_primary_authored 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_primary_authored. 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_primary_authored 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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