# Gov Relations (remote · govrelations.ai)

Federal and state lobbying data: who lobbies for whom, spending, bills, agencies. From LDA filings.

- Trust score: 77/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-10

## Components

- remote · `govrelations.ai`: 77/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-govrelations-govrelations/govrelations.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-govrelations-govrelations/govrelations)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://govrelations.ai/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.2.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-10.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 77/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1524 tokens (~127/item across 12 items; 12 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 27/100
  - Stability observed for 8 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 97/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 90% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 12 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 13 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Gov Relations MCP server?

Gov Relations is a hosted endpoint at https://govrelations.ai/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http ai-govrelations-govrelations 'https://govrelations.ai/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-govrelations-govrelations": {
      "url": "https://govrelations.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ai-govrelations-govrelations": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://govrelations.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ai-govrelations-govrelations]
url = "https://govrelations.ai/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ai-govrelations-govrelations": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://govrelations.ai/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ai-govrelations-govrelations --url 'https://govrelations.ai/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ai-govrelations-govrelations:
    url: "https://govrelations.ai/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ai-govrelations-govrelations": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://govrelations.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ai-govrelations-govrelations -t streamable-http -u 'https://govrelations.ai/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-govrelations-govrelations": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://govrelations.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-10 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes. Other categories moved too: Schema Quality & AI Usability fell 1.

### 2026-10-06 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-04 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-03 (score 74, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-02 (score 74)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (12)

### `search_lobbying` (~116 tokens)

Search lobbyists, firms and clients

Find registered federal lobbyists, lobbying firms, clients (organizations that hire lobbyists), issues, agencies and bills by name. Returns matches with their Gov Relations page. Use it first to turn a name into a slug for get_firm, get_client or get_lobbyist.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): A name or part of one, e.g. "Pfizer", "Akin Gump", "Jane Smith", "defense".
- `type` (string): Limit to one kind of result. Default any.

### `get_client` (~85 tokens)

Who lobbies for an organization

An organization's federal lobbying: the firms it hires and what it pays them, its most recent quarterly spending and past-year total, the issues it lobbies on and the lobbyists on its account. Accepts a Gov Relations slug or a name.

Input parameters:

- `client` (string, required): Organization name or slug, e.g. "Microsoft" or "microsoft-corporation-12345".

### `get_firm` (~69 tokens)

A lobbying firm's clients and income

A lobbying firm's current clients with the latest reported fee for each, its lobbying income by quarter, its main issues and its lobbyists. Accepts a Gov Relations slug or a name.

Input parameters:

- `firm` (string, required): Firm name or slug, e.g. "Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck".

### `get_lobbyist` (~62 tokens)

A lobbyist's clients and background

A registered federal lobbyist: current firm, clients in the past year, main issues, and the government positions they disclosed (the revolving door). Accepts a Gov Relations slug or a name.

Input parameters:

- `lobbyist` (string, required): Lobbyist name or slug.

### `who_lobbies_on` (~98 tokens)

Who lobbies on an issue

The lobbying firms and lobbyists most active on a policy issue over the past 12 months, ranked by the number of disclosed lobbying activities. Issues are the LDA general issue areas, e.g. Health Issues, Defense, Taxation, Energy, Trade, Immigration, Agriculture, Telecommunications.

Input parameters:

- `issue` (string, required): Issue name, slug or three-letter LDA code, e.g. "health", "Defense", "TAX".

### `latest_filings` (~154 tokens)

Latest lobbying filings

The newest federal lobbying disclosures as they post to lda.gov: new registrations (a firm hired by a new client), terminations, quarterly reports and amendments, with client, firm, amount, issues and lobbyists. Optionally filter by kind, issue code or a name.

Input parameters:

- `issue_code` (string): Optional three-letter LDA issue code, e.g. "HCR", "DEF", "TAX".
- `kind` (string): new = registrations, ended = terminations, reports = quarterly reports. Default all.
- `limit` (integer): How many filings to return. Default 10.
- `query` (string): Optional company, firm or issue name to narrow to (past 12 months).

### `quarter_rankings` (~68 tokens)

Quarterly lobbying rankings

For one quarter: total disclosed federal lobbying spending, the top lobbying firms by income, the top spenders, and the busiest issues, with the change from a year earlier. Defaults to the latest quarter whose reports are due.

Input parameters:

- `quarter` (integer)
- `year` (integer)

### `who_lobbies_on_bill` (~152 tokens)

Who lobbies on a bill

The companies and organizations whose lobbying reports name a specific bill in Congress, and the lobbying firms each one uses on it, with the bill's title, sponsor and latest action. Accepts a bill number (e.g. "H.R. 1", "S. 1582", "HR 4366") or words from its title (e.g. "GENIUS Act", "farm bill").

Input parameters:

- `bill` (string, required): Bill number or title words, e.g. "H.R. 3633" or "CLARITY Act".
- `congress` (integer): Congress number, e.g. 119 for 2025 and 2026. Default the current Congress.

### `revolving_door` (~144 tokens)

Lobbyists who worked in government

Registered federal lobbyists who disclosed working for a given government office: a member of Congress, a committee, a chamber, the White House or an agency (the revolving door). Ranked by recent lobbying activity, with each person's current firm and the matching former positions. Optionally narrow to lobbyists active on one issue.

Input parameters:

- `issue` (string): Optional issue to narrow to, e.g. "health", "defense" or a three-letter LDA code such as "TAX".
- `office` (string, required): The former office, e.g. "Senator Shelby", "Senate Finance Committee", "House Appropriations", "White House", "FDA".

### `who_lobbies_agency` (~98 tokens)

Who lobbies a federal agency

The lobbying firms and the organizations that reported lobbying a given federal agency or chamber in the past 12 months, ranked by the number of reports naming it, with each organization's past-year lobbying spending. E.g. FDA, EPA, Department of Defense, Treasury, FCC, the White House, the Senate.

Input parameters:

- `agency` (string, required): Agency name or acronym, e.g. "FDA", "Pentagon", "Federal Communications Commission".

### `industry_lobbying` (~90 tokens)

Lobbying by industry

An industry's federal lobbying over the past 12 months: the organizations in it that spent the most, their combined spending, and the lobbying firms with the most clients in it. Call with no industry to list the industries available.

Input parameters:

- `industry` (string): Industry name, e.g. "pharmaceuticals", "technology", "oil and gas", "banking". Omit to list industries.

### `state_lobbying` (~154 tokens)

State lobbying

Lobbying at the state level, from state lobbyist registration records. With a state only: how many lobbyists and clients it has and the busiest clients and firms. With a state and a name: the matching clients, firms and lobbyists in that state and who lobbies for whom, with pay where the state discloses it. With a name only: the states where an organization has registered lobbyists. Coverage grows as more states are added; the result lists the states available.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string): Optional organization, firm or lobbyist name, e.g. "Amazon".
- `state` (string): Two-letter code or state name, e.g. "TX" or "New York".

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-govrelations-govrelations/govrelations#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-10: 77
- 2026-10-06: 76
- 2026-10-04: 75
- 2026-10-03: 74
- 2026-10-02: 74

## Common questions

### What is the Gov Relations MCP server?

Gov Relations is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ai.govrelations/govrelations. Federal and state lobbying data: who lobbies for whom, spending, bills, agencies. From LDA filings. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://govrelations.ai/mcp).

### Is the Gov Relations MCP server safe to use?

Gov Relations scores 77 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Gov Relations MCP server expose?

Gov Relations exposes 12 tools: search_lobbying, get_client, get_firm, get_lobbyist, who_lobbies_on, and 7 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,290 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Gov Relations MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Gov Relations without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Gov Relations MCP server still maintained?

Gov Relations is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 10 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://govrelations.ai/mcp
- Website: https://govrelations.ai/ai
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-govrelations-govrelations/govrelations.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-govrelations-govrelations/govrelations.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-govrelations-govrelations/govrelations