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Oravan

by oravan.org · remote · no sign-in to list tools · v0.1.0 · published by org.oravan

Nonpartisan U.S. Congress data: bill decodes, rep lookup, bilingual EN/ES, read-only, no accounts.

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5 tools: 1 change things and 4 only read.

Scanned Oct 21, 2026

No check matched anything in the tool definitions. No finding is not a safety guarantee. How the checks work.

claude mcp add --transport http oravan https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp

Tools

Open a tool for its reasons and full description. Descriptions are the publisher's own words, shown as they are.

5 tools

Changes things 1Claude Code: ask
  • whats_movingWhat's moving in Congress recently: active, plain-language-decoded bills that cleared Oravan's 'act now' urgency bar within the last N days (default 7), optionally filtered by topi…No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
    • The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    What's moving in Congress recently: active, plain-language-decoded bills that cleared Oravan's 'act now' urgency bar within the last N days (default 7), optionally filtered by topic. Returns an honest empty list with quiet_week: true when nothing has cleared the bar - this tool never pads the list to look busier than Congress actually is this week. If the list is empty because Oravan's own data sync looks stale rather than Congress being quiet, data_stale is set instead so that distinction is never lost.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
Only reads 4Claude Code: allow
  • get_billGet the full plain-language decode of a federal bill by slug (e.g.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_bill" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Get the full plain-language decode of a federal bill by slug (e.g. "hr-2701-119") or citation (e.g. "H.R. 2701" - resolves to the most recent Congress on a match). Returns the AI-generated summary (headline, tl;dr, what/who/why/cost - automatically checked before publish and clearly labeled when present), the official status in plain language, a decision_state (pending, settled or enacted, with the official record's own sentence in settled_reason once the decision is settled or enacted), an urgency band and an urgency_score (the score is ranked from status and recency alone; decision_state, not the score, says whether a decision is still ahead), sponsor, key dates, the official Congress.gov page, and - while the decision is still pending - an act_url to Oravan's on-site call flow. This tool never drafts a phone script - script generation happens only on-site, where the caller reads and can edit the script before dialing; that is not available over this API.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
  • get_representativeGet full details for one member of Congress by bioguide ID (e.g.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_representative" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Get full details for one member of Congress by bioguide ID (e.g. "W000797"), plus their 5 most recently active sponsored bills. Facts only: no scorecards, ratings, or vote grades.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
  • lookup_representativesLook up a person's U.S.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "lookup_representatives" says "lookup": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Look up a person's U.S. House member and two Senators by 5-digit ZIP code. Returns each member's name, party, phone, official website, portrait URL, and district office phone numbers - the number a constituent should actually call. Some ZIP codes span more than one congressional district (needs_address: true, all candidate districts returned); this tool does not perform address-level refinement itself in this release - point the person to the response's reps_url, where a stateless, unlogged Census-geocoder proxy narrows it to a single district from a street address that Oravan never stores. When a House seat currently has no member, `vacancies` lists the empty seat(s) (state + district) explicitly - the departed member is never returned as if still serving, and no election timeline is implied.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
  • search_billsSearch Oravan's bilingual federal bill corpus by free-text query, issue topic, status, or active-only.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "search_bills" says "search": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Search Oravan's bilingual federal bill corpus by free-text query, issue topic, status, or active-only. Returns short teasers (headline, status, decision_state, urgency) for matching bills, most urgent first. The urgency_score is ranked from status and recency alone; decision_state says whether a decision is still ahead.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false

This is not a safety rating, and no finding is not a safety guarantee. The groups and findings come from fixed checks of the tool definitions the server returned on the date shown, not from its code or what it does when called. How the checks work.

Install

Pinned to version 0.1.0. Values in angle brackets are yours to fill in.

claude mcp add --transport http oravan https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp

Run in a terminal.

Claude Code permissions

Allow the reads, ask before a change, deny the deletes. Paste into .claude/settings.json.

.claude/settings.json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__oravan__lookup_representatives",
      "mcp__oravan__get_bill",
      "mcp__oravan__search_bills",
      "mcp__oravan__get_representative"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__oravan__whats_moving"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}

Tools that only read are allowed, tools that change things ask first, tools that delete or cancel are denied. It assumes the server is installed as oravan. Review it before you use it.