# OpenPublica > Search US local-government meetings: AI summaries, transcripts, and adopted plan documents. - name: com.openpublica/civic-meetings - version: 1.0.0 - connection class: R0 (autonomous) - trust: 80/100 flags: no-repository - quality: 69/100 (needs work) - owner: not claimed - descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.openpublica%2Fcivic-meetings - tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.openpublica%2Fcivic-meetings/tools **An agent can connect right now, no human step.** Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe. ## Connection (mcpServers) ```json { "mcpServers": { "civic-meetings": { "type": "http", "url": "https://api.openpublica.com/mcp" } } } ``` ## Trust - hygiene: 80 - liveness: 100 - freshness: 85 - provenance: 55 - drivers: +dns-namespace +website +reachable +uptime-100% ~updated-54d-ago -no-repository - Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed. ## Quality 69/100 (needs work) ### protocol: 75 (weight 25) - warn `protocol.modern`: newest supported version is 2025-06-18; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28 - n/a `protocol.stateless`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers - pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP - n/a `protocol.list_ttl`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers ### authorization: n/a (weight 15) - n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth - n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL ### tool hygiene: 86 (weight 30) - pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description - pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise - pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema - pass `tools.annotations`: 16 of 16 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint - fail `tools.directory_hints`: no tool declares all four of readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint; missing: search_meeting_content (idempotentHint); find_governments_by_name (idempotentHint); find_governments_by_zip (idempotentHint); … - pass `tools.token_cost`: about 4,335 tokens to load every tool - pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump ### stability: 25 (weight 15) - warn `stability.changes`: 22 tool changes in 30 days - fail `stability.rug_pull`: 3 tools kept their name but changed most of their description in 30 days; review before trusting them ### dependencies: n/a (weight 15) - n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package - tools: 16, about 4,335 tokens to load them all - tool set hash: f25811b97e343af8c29ff872ae2e0834 - tools last changed: 2026-10-18T02:17:09.186Z - badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/com.openpublica/civic-meetings.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/com.openpublica/civic-meetings) - Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed. ### Tool changes - 2026-10-18 `get_coverage_overview` changed (description, annotations) **meaning changed** - before: Get 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 DC". - after: Get estimated stored-record totals, not publication-filtered coverage. Counts do not establish completeness, searchability or freshness. DC is reported separately from states as `includes_dc`. - 2026-10-18 `search_documents` changed (annotations) - 2026-10-18 `read_document_pages` changed (annotations) - 2026-10-18 `get_document` changed (annotations) - 2026-10-18 `list_government_documents` changed (annotations) - 2026-10-18 `discover_meeting_vocabulary` changed (annotations) - 2026-10-18 `get_government_stats` changed (annotations) - 2026-10-18 `get_government_info` changed (annotations) - 2026-10-18 `find_governments_by_zip` changed (annotations) - 2026-10-18 `find_governments_by_name` changed (annotations) Full history: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.openpublica%2Fcivic-meetings/changes ## Remotes - https://api.openpublica.com/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 1) ## Packages _none_ ## Tools (16) - `discover_meeting_vocabulary`: Discover 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 the real values, then pass a returned `category_tag` (from `categories[].tags`) or `topic` string into `search_meetings_semantic` / `list_recent_meetings`. Scope with a government and/or date range; calls without explicit dates default to a recent window (returned as `default_window_days`). - `find_governments_by_name`: Resolve 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 matches first), which you then pass to the search/list tools. Prefer this over `find_local_governments` when starting from a name rather than a latitude/longitude. - `find_governments_by_zip`: Resolve 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 resolved location. An empty `governments` list means none are tracked near that ZIP yet. - `find_local_governments`: Discover 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. Note OpenPublica only covers a limited set of US localities; an empty result means none are tracked near that point yet. - `get_coverage_overview`: Get estimated stored-record totals, not publication-filtered coverage. Counts do not establish completeness, searchability or freshness. DC is reported separately from states as `includes_dc`. - `get_document`: One 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 marker that may have been merged into the number it annotates. No such key means the document transcribed cleanly. - `get_government_info`: Get a tracked government's profile: name, location, and meeting categories. - `get_government_stats`: Get 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?" questions. - `get_meeting`: Get a single meeting's full AI summary and topics. Set `include_transcript=true` to also retrieve the complete transcript text for direct quotation. Returns an error object if the meeting is not found. - `list_government_documents`: List 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 eight with the same PDF, so do not conclude an element is unpublished because no entry is named after it. `status` says what the entry offers: `converted` is searchable and readable; `superseded` is a retired edition, still stored but not searchable; and **`failed` means we hold this document and could not read it — it is not evidence the city published nothing.** Cite `source_url` in that case; it is always the city's own copy. An `availability` block appears ONLY when something is wrong with a document, and `availability.reason` says what. No `availability` key means there is nothing to report. - `list_recent_meetings`: Browse 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 questions, prefer `search_meetings_semantic`. - `read_document_pages`: Read 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 rather than being silently dropped — if you see one, say so instead of reading past it. Text is assembled from page windows, so `covered` may be slightly wider than what you asked for; cite the page numbers in `covered`, not `requested`. - `search_documents`: Search 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` to read it in context. Every hit carries `first_page`/`last_page` and `source_url`. Quote those when citing: the page number is what makes the claim checkable against the city's own copy. This is word matching, not semantic search — try the terms a plan would actually use. Only currently-served documents are searchable, so an empty result is not evidence the government has no such policy; check list_government_documents for what is held and what could not be read. A hit with `document_complete: false` comes from a document with transcription findings. Verify it against `source_url` before quoting a number from it. - `search_meeting_content`: Search public meetings once across metadata and stored transcript text. Returns one card per meeting and native pagination metadata, without a total. Small current-text previews can be absent and do not establish timestamps. Text relevance can lag updates or match across untimed boundaries. Source transcripts searches stored text, including meetings without timed proof. - `search_meetings_semantic`: Find AI summaries by meaning; use search_meeting_content for stored words. Results carry relevance_score and a summary preview. Narrow with government, category_tag, topic or dates; get_meeting retrieves the full summary. - `search_meeting_transcript`: Use unified stored-text search inside one currently public meeting. Returns an optional current-text preview, without resolving timing. A text match can lack a literal preview; use get_meeting(include_transcript=true) for full source retrieval. This does not run a separate local scan or fuzzy passage ranking.