List legislative committees.
AI agents call list_committees 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 and queries legislative committee data without any side effects. It matches the 'Read' category definition: retrieves or queries data with no side effects. The severity is low because exposure of public legislative committee information poses minimal risk to users or systems, even if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'list_committees' and description states 'List legislative committees' — a straightforward retrieval operation with no modification, deletion, or execution of code or commands.
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List legislative committees. 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 list_committees: 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.
list_committees 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 list_committees 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 list_committees. 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.
list_committees 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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