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com.openpublica/civic-meetings

Checked 26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

Search US local-government meetings: AI summaries, transcripts, and adopted plan documents.

Website

At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

openpublica.com (verified by the MCP Registry)

Status

Working at last check

Tools

16

Token cost

About 4,891 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http civic-meetings https://api.openpublica.com/mcp

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.civic-meetings]
url = "https://api.openpublica.com/mcp"

Gemini CLI

{"mcpServers":{"civic-meetings":{"httpUrl":"https://api.openpublica.com/mcp"}}}

Cursor

{"mcpServers":{"civic-meetings":{"url":"https://api.openpublica.com/mcp"}}}

VS Code

{"servers":{"civic-meetings":{"type":"http","url":"https://api.openpublica.com/mcp"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add civic-meetings https://api.openpublica.com/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"civic-meetings","server_url":"https://api.openpublica.com/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"civic-meetings","server_url":"https://api.openpublica.com/mcp"}

Tools

• discover_meeting_vocabulary ~440 tokens
  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 `top
• find_governments_by_name ~240 tokens
  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_loc
• find_governments_by_zip ~201 tokens
  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 ~263 tokens
  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 non
• get_coverage_overview ~100 tokens
  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 ~178 tokens
  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 th
• get_government_info ~152 tokens
  Get a tracked government's profile: name, location, and meeting categories.
• get_government_stats ~190 tokens
  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 ~188 tokens
  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 ~378 tokens
  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 entr
• list_recent_meetings ~452 tokens
  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 ~311 tokens
  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
• search_documents ~425 tokens
  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`. Q
• search_meeting_content ~480 tokens
  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 boundar
• search_meeting_transcript ~218 tokens
  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
• search_meetings_semantic ~675 tokens
  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.

Browse

• PDF tools
• Converting to Markdown
• Speech to text
• Searching your documents (RAG)

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