OpenPublica
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Search US local-government meetings: AI summaries, transcripts, and adopted plan documents.
Endpoint: https://api.openpublica.com/mcp
Connect
claude mcp add --transport http civic-meetings https://api.openpublica.com/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"civic-meetings": {
"url": "https://api.openpublica.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"civic-meetings": {
"type": "streamable-http",
"url": "https://api.openpublica.com/mcp"
}
}
}Tools (19)
- 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…
- find_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 …
- find_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 resolve…
- find_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…
- get_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 D…
- get_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…
- 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…
- get_meetingGet a single meeting's full AI summary, topics, and attendees. Set `include_transcript=true` to also retrieve the complete transcript text for direct quotation. Returns an error object if the meeting…
- get_meeting_officialsList verified host officials who attended some part of this meeting. Includes attended sessions, host bodies and attendance citations. Missing names or an empty list do not establish absence. Coverag…
- get_officialRead an official's name, evidenced aliases and counts from eligible meetings. Counts cover verified, publicly visible meeting records, not all meetings in a term. This does not assert a current offic…
- list_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 e…
- list_government_officialsSearch host officials supported by visible, eligible meeting generations. This is not a complete city directory or current roster. Coverage describes the reviewed visible subset. Visitors, staff and …
- list_official_meetingsRead version-pinned meeting history with dated roles, scoped status and citations. Unknown membership-linked attendance is included, not treated as absence. Order is public meeting date descending, u…
- 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 question…
- read_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…
- search_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…
- search_meeting_transcriptFind exact quotes/passages inside one meeting's transcript. Use this to pull direct quotations without loading a whole (often very long) transcript: it fetches the transcript server-side, scans it, a…
- search_meetings_semanticSearch OpenPublica meeting summaries by meaning, exact terms, or both. The best default tool for "what has been said/decided about X" questions. Results carry a `relevance_score` (semantic, 0-1) and/…
History
- 19 tools added: search_meetings_semantic, list_recent_meetings, get_meeting, get_meeting_officials, get_official, list_official_meetings, list_government_officials, search_meeting_transcript, find_local_governments, find_governments_by_name, find_governments_by_zip, get_government_info, get_government_stats, discover_meeting_vocabulary, list_government_documents, get_document, read_document_pages, search_documents, get_coverage_overview
- Became working (was unverified)
- First seen in the registry (1.0.0)