OpenPublica
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."
Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (com.openpublica/civic-meetings) · First listed September 24, 2026
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Technical details: safety screening, tools, response time and recent checks
Response time at the last check: 739ms. Worked in 100% of checks over 30 days.
Screening · September 24, 2026
Screened, no issues found
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 · 15
search_meetings_semanticSearch OpenPublica meeting summaries by meaning, exact terms, or both. The best default tool for "what has been said/decided about X" questions. Results carry a `relevance_score` (semantic, 0-1) and/or `keyword_score` (BM25) plus `highlights`, so you can triage matches by confidelist_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_transcriptFind exact quotes/passages inside one meeting's transcript. Use this to pull direct quotations without loading a whole (often very long) transcript: it fetches the transcript server-side, scans it, and returns only the matching passages with approximate `start`/`end` timecodes whfind_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 mefind_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 `ffind_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 eget_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 meansread_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 psearch_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_uget_coverage_overviewGet 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".Recent checks
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https://api.openpublica.com/mcpQuestions 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 (September 28, 2026, 06:46 UTC) the endpoint was working, answering in 739ms. 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 15 tools, including search_meetings_semantic, list_recent_meetings, get_meeting, search_meeting_transcript. 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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