What is fec-campaign-finance-research?

A research skill for federal U.S. campaign-finance records from the Federal Election Commission, the government agency that publishes those filings. It covers candidates, committees, donations, spending, independent expenditures, and filing flags.

Use it to find candidates and committees, summarize committee finances, inspect receipts or disbursements, search donors and spending, and review filing records.

It provides a defined way to look up federal finance records without treating missing results or filing flags as proof of wrongdoing.

fec-campaign-finance-research — Skill for Codex by sh-patterson

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.

Any agent

npx skills add sh-patterson/fec-mcp-server --skill fec-campaign-finance-research

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sh-patterson/fec-mcp-server

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

README.md

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 615 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

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.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00051	$0.00615
Opus 5.5	$0.00020	$0.00246
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00123
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00061

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d34fa05cb1a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fec-campaign-finance-research 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 2mo 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.

skill/fec-campaign-finance-research/SKILL.md · 34 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 34 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FEC campaign finance research

Use the FEC MCP tools for federal records only.

Run search_candidates when you need a candidate or principal committee ID.
State that no result was found in the searched federal records. Do not infer that a person or race is non-federal.
Use get_committee_finances for a committee-level summary.
Use get_receipts, get_disbursements, or get_independent_expenditures for transaction detail.
Use search_donors or search_spending only for cross-committee searches.
Use get_committee_flags for filing records. Do not describe a flag as a violation.

When you compare a summary with transactions, pass the same value for cycle and two_year_transaction_period. Use narrow filters and a small limit first. State the filters, cycle, result count, and returned-row count in the answer.

OpenFEC refreshes nightly. Cached results can remain stale for up to one hour. A returned page is not a complete result set. Treat large result counts as approximate.

Continue a search

The following tools support continuation: search_candidates, get_receipts, get_disbursements, get_independent_expenditures, search_donors, and search_spending.

When a result includes Continuation: {"continuation":"fecp1..."}, paste that JSON value into the next call as the continuation field. Keep every other filter unchanged. Continue until the footer says Continuation: none. A keyset route can return an empty terminal page. The server rejects a token when filters change or when a token is used with a different tool.

Treat continuation tokens as unsigned, stateless, and opaque. Do not decode, edit, or construct one. Candidate tokens advance OpenFEC page numbers. Transaction tokens advance OpenFEC keyset cursors. Candidate page membership is not guaranteed to stay stable across OpenFEC refreshes.

Read the footer count status as exact, approximate, or unspecified. Report exact counts as exact records. Report approximate counts as reported records. Report unspecified counts without claiming a total. Preserve source record IDs and OpenFEC-returned URLs when you cite a record.

Read the full file on GitHub · 34 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

agents/openai.yaml 228 B

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.

2mo ago First seen · 34 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A d34fa05cb1a5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fec-campaign-finance-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository sh-patterson/fec-mcp-server (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 615 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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