Full-text search across bill texts. Returns 50 results per page with relevance scores, bill summaries, and URLs. Use for interactive searches.
AI agents call legiscan_search 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 publicly available legislative data without any ability to modify, delete, or execute operations. It is a straightforward read operation that searches and returns information. The 'Use for interactive searches' note confirms it is a retrieval/query tool. Public legislative data has minimal sensitivity risk even if exposed to uncontrolled AI agents.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states it performs 'Full-text search across bill texts' and 'Returns 50 results per page with relevance scores, bill summaries, and URLs.' The verb 'search' and 'Returns' indicate data retrieval with no modification capability.
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Full-text search across bill texts. Returns 50 results per page with relevance scores, bill summaries, and URLs. Use for interactive searches. 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_search: 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_search 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_search 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_search. 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_search 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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