Route a plain-English question to the right source: WHD enforcement, OSHA inspections, DOL foreign-labor/LCA disclosures, or SAM.gov contract opportunities.
AI agents call ask_government_data to retrieve information from DOL WHD MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool functions as a query router for read-only access to public government databases. It retrieves information without side effects, matching the 'Read' category definition of querying data with no side effects. The sibling tools (search, disclosure_files, etc.) reinforce this as a data retrieval interface.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it routes "a plain-English question to the right source" to retrieve and query government datasets (WHD enforcement, OSHA inspections, DOL disclosures, SAM.gov opportunities).
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Route a plain-English question to the right source: WHD enforcement, OSHA inspections, DOL foreign-labor/LCA disclosures, or SAM.gov contract opportunities. It is categorised as a Read tool in the DOL WHD MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the DOL WHD MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for ask_government_data: 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 DOL WHD MCP. Nothing to install.
ask_government_data 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 ask_government_data 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 ask_government_data. 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.
ask_government_data is provided by the DOL WHD MCP server (uhq-actual/dol_mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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