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openstates-mcp-server

openstates-mcp-server is a plugin for Claude Code from cyanheads/openstates-mcp-server. Its manifest loads nothing; the 32 skills, 1 MCP server it bundles cost 2,220 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An MCP server for searching bills, legislators, committees, and events across all US states, Washington, DC, and five US territories. MCP lets an AI model call these searches through a standard connection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up proposed laws, elected officials, committees, and legislative events through a local or HTTP server.
Why use it?
It removes the need to build and maintain separate search connections for this legislative data.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

not rated 2repo +1 13d ago A scan tokens not measured original Apache-2.0

Good fit Use it to look up proposed laws, elected officials, committees, and legislative events through a local or HTTP server.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add cyanheads/openstates-mcp-server/plugin install 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.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 32 skills, 1 MCP server cost 2,220 tokens a session between them.
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 7d 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.

.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 22 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "openstates-mcp-server",
  "version": "0.3.1",
  "description": "Search bills, legislators, committees, and events across all 50 US states, DC, and 5 US territories via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.",
  "author": {
    "name": "cyanheads"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openstates-mcp-server#readme",
  "repository": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openstates-mcp-server",
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "mcpServers": {
    "openstates-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@cyanheads/openstates-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE": "stdio",
        "OPENSTATES_API_KEY": ""
      }
    }
  }
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 32 skills, 1 MCP server travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 2,220 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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. 7d ago First seen · 22 lines scan A fffff6d830cf

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openstates-mcp-server is a plugin published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/openstates-mcp-server (2 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.

Legal and complianceResearchaibunlegislationmcpmcp-servermodel-context-protocol
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