AI agents call find_related_laws to retrieve information from Egov Law without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries a legal database to find related laws and regulations. It retrieves information without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. The 'find' and 'lookup' semantics, combined with the server's purpose as a search/retrieval system, place this squarely in the Read category with low risk.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Find[s] laws related to a base law name' — a lookup/retrieval operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of code.
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Find laws related to a base law name, including enforcement orders and regulations. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Egov Law MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Egov Law MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for find_related_laws: 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 Egov Law. Nothing to install.
find_related_laws 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 find_related_laws 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 find_related_laws. 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.
find_related_laws is provided by the Egov Law MCP server (shayouworld/egov-law-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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