Should my agent depend on the MCP server global.rootz.politics/officials?

Verdict: allow — mid-fast-shared — safe to depend on As of 2026-08-15T11:28:18Z: a dated observation with receipts, not a warranty.

officials

global.rootz.politics/officials

Origin-signed US political data: 25,546 officials, bills, votes, positions with sources.

— the operator's own registry description reported

Publisher global.rootz.politics · first seen 2026-08-12 · endpoint https://politics.rootz.global/mcp

allow

verdict

mid-fast-shared

cluster

ok_tools

answers

tools served

Dependency rating derived

allow — mid-fast-shared — safe to depend on

Cluster mid-fast-shared · distinctiveness 0.711 (unusual). Every figure is a percentile or class within the 11,094-server census — see the whole spectrum.

Reach — can an agent get to it?

answersalive_tools

latency16 ms

vs populationfast

protocolcurrent

authopen

Use — can it use it?

tools28

vs populationmid

capabilities3

harnessA

Trust — can it rely on it?

identityshared

servers on its host1

servers on its domain9

verifiabilityunassessed

duplicate inventoryno

drift events0

answers trueno primary

🔏 Signed receipt rr_225448abeb74bdf05d686574 · ed25519 · key rs-rcpt-2026-08 — this rating is tamper-evident; an agent gets the full signature from check_server and can verify it against the published key.

Tools last seen

politics_alignment politics_bill politics_bill_text politics_bill_toc politics_bills_search politics_bridge_compare politics_bridge_create politics_bridge_letter politics_bridge_session politics_by_state politics_candidate_feed politics_candidates politics_changes politics_coverage politics_create_watchlist politics_methodology politics_municipalities politics_official politics_origin politics_positions politics_provenance politics_represent politics_resolve politics_search politics_speeches politics_state_votes politics_stats politics_timeline

Harness readiness observed

Can an agent's harness pick this tool and call it correctly? Graded on the three things an agent reads — name, description, typed parameters. Band A — an agent can pick and call these reliably.

legibility check	tools passing	ok
name is clear & specific	28/28	✓
has a description	28/28	✓
description is substantive	28/28	✓
parameters are typed	28/28	✓
parameters are described	24/28	24/28

28 of 28 tools graded · 28 with a captured input schema. RS-008, Tier-1 — no domain knowledge, applies to any tool. “Alive” is not the same as “usable”.

Truth checks observed

Not in the Tier-2 trade lane, or not yet checked. Tier-2 re-derives a server's answers against published primary sources — see truth checks.

Protocol conformance observed

2025-06-18

protocol version

—

session model

0.3.0

server version politics-rootz

Capabilities: prompts resources tools

Drift

No confirmed drift on record. Baseline set 2026-08-14; changes appear here after human review.

History observed

Every probe we made, oldest → newest (2 shown, 2026-08-12 → 2026-08-14). Green answered · amber answered-but-walled · red no useful answer. A gap in our cadence is a gap in coverage, not evidence about the server.

changelog (1 events)

date	type	what changed
2026-08-12	outcome	first probe: ok_tools

raw probe records

probed (UTC)	outcome	http	ms	protocol
2026-08-14T19:58:49Z	ok_tools	200	16	2025-06-18
2026-08-12T05:34:03Z	ok_tools	200	25	2025-06-18

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