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openstates-mcp-server

openstates-mcp-server is an MCP server for Claude Code from cyanheads/openstates-mcp-server. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A local MCP server for searching legislative information across every US state, Washington, DC, and five US territories. It can search bills, legislators, committees, and events, and needs an API key plus request settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find state and territorial bills, lawmakers, committees, and legislative events through the OpenStates service.
Why use it?
It avoids checking many separate state legislature websites when researching US state government activity.

MCP server for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the openstates-mcp-server plugin — 33 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

not rated 2repo 3d ago A scan tokens not measured original Apache-2.0

Good fit Use it to find state and territorial bills, lawmakers, committees, and legislative events through the OpenStates service.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add mcp/cyanheads/openstates-mcp-server/openstates-mcp-server
View source ↗ cyanheads/openstates-mcp-server npmjs.com
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/openstates-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install openstates-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

openstates-mcp-server scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

server.json · 16 lines

What it actually says

{
  "openstates-mcp-server": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": [
      "-y",
      "@cyanheads/openstates-mcp-server"
    ],
    "env": {
      "OPENSTATES_API_KEY": "",
      "OPENSTATES_DAILY_REQUEST_BUDGET": "250",
      "OPENSTATES_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS": "45000",
      "OPENSTATES_TOTAL_REQUEST_BUDGET_MS": "90000",
      "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "info"
    }
  }
}
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 16 lines scan A 3ffc432adb82

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openstates-mcp-server is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/openstates-mcp-server (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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