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com.openpublica/civic-meetings · v1.0.0
Search US local-government meetings: AI summaries, transcripts, and adopted plan documents.
MCPremoteno credentialsCalendarLaw & governmentDocuments & PDF
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Reachable, 16 tools, protocol 2025-06-18 · checked 2026-10-17
Test & rating
A 99/100
What it does: 16 tools · 16 read, 0 write · Calendar, Law & government, Documents & PDF
Test call list_recent_meetings: worked (930 ms)
How the rating is made
- Answers without login: +30
- Speed of first answer: +10
- Lists tools: +10
- Tool descriptions: +15
- Parameter descriptions: +9
- Read/write annotations: +5
- Safe test call: +20
- More than 80 tools: 0
Tested 2026-10-17. Fixed rules, no AI model. Grade A needs a successful real call.
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16 tools listed at last check
search_meeting_contentSearch public meetings once across metadata and stored transcript text. Returns one card per meeting and native pagination metadata, without a total. Small current-text previews can be absent and do not establish timestamps. Text relevance can lag updates or match across untimed boundarsearch_meetings_semanticFind AI summaries by meaning; use search_meeting_content for stored words. Results carry relevance_score and a summary preview. Narrow with government, category_tag, topic or dates; get_meeting retrieves the full summary.list_recent_meetingsBrowse meetings newest-first, optionally filtered by government, type, topic, or date. Use this for "what are the most recent meetings" or to page through a government's history. For topical questions, prefer `search_meetings_semantic`.get_meetingGet a single meeting's full AI summary and topics. Set `include_transcript=true` to also retrieve the complete transcript text for direct quotation. Returns an error object if the meeting is not found.search_meeting_transcriptUse unified stored-text search inside one currently public meeting. Returns an optional current-text preview, without resolving timing. A text match can lack a literal preview; use get_meeting(include_transcript=true) for full source retrieval. This does not run a separate local scan orfind_local_governmentsDiscover which governments OpenPublica tracks near a coordinate. Returns nearby governments with their `account_id`, which you can pass to the other tools to scope results to a specific city or board. Note OpenPublica only covers a limited set of US localities; an empty result means nonfind_governments_by_nameResolve a place *name* to the governments OpenPublica tracks there. Use this when you know a city/state name but not its coordinates — it returns matching governments with their `account_id` (prefix matches first), which you then pass to the search/list tools. Prefer this over `find_locfind_governments_by_zipResolve a ZIP code to nearby tracked governments. Convenience wrapper: geocodes the ZIP, then finds the governments OpenPublica tracks nearest that point. Returns their `account_id`s plus the resolved location. An empty `governments` list means none are tracked near that ZIP yet.get_government_infoGet a tracked government's profile: name, location, and meeting categories.get_government_statsGet meeting-activity stats for a government over a recent window. Returns total meeting count, a per-day activity map, and a breakdown of meeting categories — useful for "how active has X been lately?" questions.discover_meeting_vocabularyDiscover the valid category and topic filter values before filtering a search. Meeting `category_tag`s are opaque UUIDs and topics have no fixed list, so you cannot guess them. Call this first to get the real values, then pass a returned `category_tag` (from `categories[].tags`) or `toplist_government_documentsList a government's adopted plan and budget documents. Each entry carries `covers` — every general-plan element that document answers for. A city that publishes one bound general plan satisfies all eight with the same PDF, so do not conclude an element is unpublished because no entrget_documentOne document's metadata. Use read_document_pages to read it. If an `availability` key is present, read it before quoting figures: its `problems` are transcription-lint findings, most often a footnote marker that may have been merged into the number it annotates. No such key means thread_document_pagesRead a page range of a document as markdown. Pages are transcribed from rendered pixels, so tables and scanned text come through as text. A page that could not be transcribed appears as a marked hole rather than being silently dropped — if you see one, say so instead of reading pastsearch_documentsSearch adopted plan and budget documents, returning page-cited excerpts. Each hit's `text` is a short passage around the match, not the full page — call read_document_pages with the hit's `first_page` to read it in context. Every hit carries `first_page`/`last_page` and `source_url`. Qget_coverage_overviewGet OpenPublica's overall coverage: total governments, states, and meetings indexed. DC is tracked but is not a state, so it is reported separately as `includes_dc` — read the pair as "N states and DC".
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