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Search US local government meetings, summaries, transcripts, and adopted plans.

Connects to OpenPublica's database of US local government meetings. Muse can search meeting summaries by topic or keyword, retrieve full transcripts and quotes, find adopted plan documents, and compare decisions across multiple cities.

Try asking Muse: "Show me what my city council decided about short-term rental regulations in the last six months."

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Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (com.openpublica/civic-meetings) · First listed September 24, 2026

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New to Muse?Muse is Meta's AI assistant. OpenPublica is an app you add to it, and once it is on, you can ask Muse to do this for you: search us local government meetings, summaries, transcripts, and adopted plans. It takes about two minutes and you can turn it off any time.

Is it safe to connect?

What Muse can see: It does not ask you to sign in, so it cannot see your accounts. It only sees what Muse sends it from your request.

Before it acts: Read what Muse plans to do before you approve it, and remove the app from Muse when you stop using it.

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How to add it to Muse

Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Copy the request below and paste it into Muse. Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

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https://api.openpublica.com/mcp

Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.

Also use it in ChatGPT or Claude

OpenPublica is a remote MCP server, so any assistant that can add a custom connector by link can use it. Same link, same tools.

Add it to ChatGPT
  1. 1

    Open ChatGPT settings

    In ChatGPT, open Settings, then Connectors (called Apps & Connectors on some accounts).

  2. 2

    Turn on developer mode

    Under Advanced settings, switch on Developer mode. That is what lets you add a connector by link.

  3. 3

    Create the connector

    Choose Create, give it a name, paste the link as the MCP server URL, and save. If it needs a sign-in, ChatGPT asks for it here.

  4. 4

    Use it in a chat

    Start a chat, open the tools menu, pick the connector, and ask. ChatGPT asks before it runs a tool the first time.

Custom connectors need a paid ChatGPT plan, and on Team, Enterprise and Edu accounts only an admin can add them. Our "Working" label means the server answered us; it cannot tell whether your plan lets you add it. All connectors that work in ChatGPT

Add it to Claude
  1. 1

    Open Claude settings

    In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Add a custom connector

    Choose Add custom connector, give it a name, and paste the link.

  3. 3

    Connect and use it

    If it needs a sign-in, Claude sends you to it. Then turn the connector on in a chat from the tools menu and ask.

Custom connectors are available on paid Claude plans; on Team and Enterprise accounts an admin may need to add them. Our "Working" label means the server answered us; it cannot tell whether your plan lets you add it. All connectors that work in Claude

https://api.openpublica.com/mcp

What people ask Muse to do

Everything Muse can do

Technical details: safety screening, tools, response time and recent checks

Response time at the last check: 602ms. Worked in 99.5% of checks over 30 days.

Screening · September 24, 2026

Screened, no issues found

MCP handshake
Pass
Answered in 601ms
Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS)
Pass
api.openpublica.com, www.openpublica.com not flagged
Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database
n/a
No npm or PyPI package published
Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text
Pass
15 tools read, nothing found
Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases
Pass
None found
Domain and redirects
Pass
No redirects off the domain
AI review of purpose and tool behavior
Pass
No concerns

Screening looks for known threats and hidden instructions at the time of the check, and runs again weekly and whenever the tool list changes. It cannot see the server's code, so only connect what you need and review what Muse asks to do. How screening works.

Tools · 16

search_meeting_contentSearch 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
search_meetings_semanticFind 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.
list_recent_meetingsBrowse 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`.
get_meetingGet 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.
search_meeting_transcriptUse 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
find_local_governmentsDiscover 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 me
find_governments_by_nameResolve 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 `f
find_governments_by_zipResolve 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.
get_government_infoGet a tracked government's profile: name, location, and meeting categories.
get_government_statsGet 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.
discover_meeting_vocabularyDiscover 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`)
list_government_documentsList 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 e
get_documentOne 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
read_document_pagesRead 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 p
search_documentsSearch 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_u
get_coverage_overviewGet 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`.

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Link

https://api.openpublica.com/mcp

Questions about OpenPublica in Muse

How do I connect OpenPublica to Muse?

Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use OpenPublica to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://api.openpublica.com/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Is OpenPublica working right now?

At the last check (November 13, 2026, 10:30 UTC) the endpoint was working, answering in 602ms. Over the last 7 days it answered 100% of health checks. It is checked every 15 minutes.

Is OpenPublica safe to connect to Muse?

It was screened on September 24, 2026 with the result "screened, no issues found". Screening checks the domain against threat feeds and reads the tools for hidden instructions and requests for passwords or card numbers. It cannot see the server's code, so grant only the access you need.

What can OpenPublica do in Muse?

It exposes 16 tools, including search_meeting_content, search_meetings_semantic, list_recent_meetings, get_meeting. For example, you could ask Muse: "Show me what my city council decided about short-term rental regulations in the last six months."

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