Get all legislators active in a legislative session. Returns list of people with their roles, parties, and districts.
AI agents call legiscan_get_session_people 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 returns public legislative data about active legislators in a session—their roles, parties, and districts. It has no side effects, does not modify data, does not execute code or commands, and does not involve financial transactions. It is a straightforward read operation querying a public legislative database.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'legiscan_get_session_people' and description 'Get all legislators active in a legislative session.
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Get all legislators active in a legislative session. Returns list of people with their roles, parties, and districts. 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_session_people: 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_session_people 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_session_people 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_session_people. 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_session_people 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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