get_legislator_votes
AI agents call get_legislator_votes to retrieve information from Umbrella Terminal MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves historical voting records—a query operation with no side effects. It provides read-only access to legislator voting data, consistent with the server's intelligence/analysis purpose. While the description is empty (lowering confidence slightly), the name and sibling tool patterns strongly indicate this is a retrieval function, not one that modifies, executes, or deletes data.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_legislator_votes' indicates retrieval of voting records. Sibling tools (get_bill, get_bill_amendments, batch_get_entities, find_path, get_bill_history) are all read-only query operations.
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get_legislator_votes. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Umbrella Terminal MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Umbrella Terminal MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_legislator_votes: 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 Umbrella Terminal MCP. Nothing to install.
get_legislator_votes 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 get_legislator_votes 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 get_legislator_votes. 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.
get_legislator_votes is provided by the Umbrella Terminal MCP server (theblackcompany/umbrella_terminal_mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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