io.github.forgemeshlabsPublished by GitHub account forgemeshlabsv0.1.5Updated Nov 3, 2026
Watch the watchers: congressional stock trades, federal contracts, campaign finance, lobbying, and.
Gov Transparency's local MCP server; no sign-in required; STDIO; 10 tools.
No AI overview yet: these facts come from the registry entry and the server itself.
Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.
Follow the launch instructions in the repository.
Watch the watchers. Congressional stock trades, federal contract awards, campaign finance, lobbying filings, and new regulations — nine MCP tools over official US government data, paid per call with x402 USDC on Base. No account, no API key, no subscription.
Commercial trackers sell congressional-trading data behind monthly subscriptions. Here it is per-call, in structured JSON, for agents: $0.005–$0.02 a query.
All official, all public domain: US House Clerk financial disclosures (parsed from the source PTR PDFs), USAspending.gov, the Federal Election Commission, the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act database, the Federal Register, and Congress.gov. Trade disclosures lag transactions by up to 45 days — that is the law's reporting window, not a data delay. Current trade coverage: US House (Senate planned); paper-filed disclosures are indexed with PDF links but not parsed into rows.
WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY must be a dedicated low-balance wallet holding a small amount of USDC on Base mainnet — never your primary wallet. get_endpoint_spec works without one.
Node.js 20+ and a dedicated, low-balance Base wallet funded with USDC. The server refuses to sign for any payee other than the two Utility Grid wallets, any network other than Base mainnet, any asset other than USDC, or any amount over the cap ($0.02 per call, $10 per session). The env vars X402_MAX_PRICE_USD and X402_SESSION_BUDGET_USD can only lower those caps. Requests are same-origin, time out after 60 seconds, are capped at 2 MB, and never follow redirects.
Each call makes a normal HTTP request; the server answers 402 Payment Required with exact terms, the client signs a USDC transfer authorization (EIP-3009) and retries, and the settlement transaction hash comes back in the response under _payment. Atomic: no data without payment, no payment without data.
MIT — code only. The underlying government data is public domain.
Source: README.md at commit 432cffb
PAID ($0.02) — Congressional stock trades parsed from official STOCK Act disclosures: US House member trades with ticker, asset, buy/sell, transaction date, and disclosed amount range. Filter by member name, ticker, trade type (purchase/sale/sale_partial/exchange), state, or date window. Disclosures lag trades by up to 45 days by law. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
typelimitsincestateuntilmembertickerPAID ($0.01) — US House financial-disclosure filing index: who filed periodic transaction reports, annual reports, amendments, and more — filer, district, type, date, and official PDF link. Poll filing_type 'P' to catch fresh trade disclosures early. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
yearlimitstatememberfiling_typePAID ($0.01) — Federal contract awards won by any company: award id, dollar amount, awarding agency, dates, description, and record link, sorted largest first. Optional agency and date-window filters. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
limitsinceuntilagencyrecipientrequiredPAID ($0.01) — Resolve a company name to its official federal recipient records: legal name, UEI, parent/child level, recent federal award totals, profile link. Use before search_federal_contracts to disambiguate entities. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
limitcompanyrequiredPAID ($0.01) — Campaign finance totals for a US federal candidate: receipts, spending, cash on hand, debts, individual vs PAC split, per recent cycle. Pass a name (fuzzy) or exact candidate_id; optional office preference. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
officecandidatecandidate_idPAID ($0.005) — Search US federal candidates by name: candidate ids, party, office, state, district, and principal campaign committees. The cheap resolver before get_candidate_money. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
candidaterequiredPAID ($0.01) — US federal lobbying filings by client company or lobbying firm: reported income, issue areas, specific-issue text, and named lobbyists per filing. Optional year filter. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
yearclientregistrantPAID ($0.005) — Newest US regulations and official notices matching a topic: proposed and final rules, executive orders, and notices with agency, date, abstract, and links, newest first. Empty query returns the latest government-wide. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
qPAID ($0.005) — Official status of a bill in the US Congress: title, sponsor, latest action, policy area, committees, and counts of actions/cosponsors/amendments. Address by congress number, type (hr, s, hjres, sjres...), and bill number. Requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY.
typenumbercongressFREE — no wallet needed. Live call spec for the gov-transparency routes: price, input JSON schema, and worked request/response examples from the service's OpenAPI doc. Call with no arguments to list all nine routes, or pass a path for full detail.
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Declare the credential headers in the registry entry, or keep the endpoint answering the probe so its auth can be classified.
{ "mcpServers": { "gov-transparency": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@forgemeshlabs/gov-transparency-mcp"], "env": { "WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x..." } } }}