Track a US policy topic from Congress to the states

A topic followed through Congress bills, state legislatures, agency rules, comment dockets and press in one dated brief.

Steps

At most, per call

Policy moves in several places at once. GovInfo finds bill text in Congress, Congress.gov gives status and actions, Open States covers state legislatures, the Federal Register lists agency rules, Regulations.gov holds comment dockets and Tavily adds press.

Before this job

The tools must be available in your connected Agentik catalog. Ask for the missing provider configuration if a tool is unavailable.

Step 1: Find and read federal bills
Search the exact phrase, then read the status and actions of the bills that really concern the topic.
Step 2: Search the state legislatures
Quote the phrase to avoid unrelated bills. Run one search per state you name.
- Open States state bill searchOpen StatesFree
Step 3: Read agency rules and dockets
Keep the comment deadline of any open docket.
- Federal Register document searchFederal RegisterFree
- Regulations.gov docket searchRegulations.govFree
Step 4: Read the press
Use coverage for context and reaction, and cite the official text for what a measure says.
- Tavily agent searchTavily$0.008

Cost of the example

At most $0.008one run

One bill search, two reads of one bill, one state search, one rule search, one docket search and one press search.

Give this to your agent

Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: us policy tracker.

Track a US policy topic for me across federal and state sources. Search federal bills for the exact phrase, then read the status and latest actions of the most relevant one. Search the state legislatures I name. List recent proposed and final rules and any rulemaking dockets. Search press coverage. Give every item its date and source, read the text before you say what a bill does, and end with the next dates to watch.

Use these Agentik tools for the written steps: govinfo/search, congress-gov/bill, congress-gov/bill-section, openstates/bill-search, federal-register/document-search, regulations-gov/docket-search, tavily/search. Inspect their current schemas and availability first. Ask for missing inputs and use identifiers returned by actual earlier results. The page's example identifiers illustrate input shapes. Quote more pages before expanding. Preserve source links, dates and uncertainty.

Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged.

6 providers, one connection

What you get

A dated policy brief with every bill, rule and docket cited.

You provide

The policy topic, in the words a law would use
The states you care about
The period to cover

Your agent returns

Federal bills with status and latest action
State bills by jurisdiction
Agency rules and comment dockets
Dated next steps and what to watch

Your evidence briefExample layout

Scope and source dates
Official records and figures
Interpretation and uncertainty
Questions and next steps

Placeholders. Your rows come from your run.

Each provider does one part

No single provider covers this job. Your agent calls each one for its part, from one connection.

Good to know

Full-text search matches words, not intent, so read a bill before you cite it.
This is research, not legal advice.

When to use something else

For daily alerts, stakeholder mapping and lobbying records across all fifty states, use a legislative tracking service. This playbook produces a dated snapshot on demand.

Questions

What does the example cost?

At most $0.008 for the illustrated calls. The official records are free through Agentik, and the paid calls are the press, maps or email steps.

Does the result cover every source?

No. Public records have publication lags and search results can be incomplete. Keep the collection date, sample size and missing evidence visible.

Does this send messages or change an account?

No. These steps read public records and prepare a brief. Sending a message or changing an account requires a separate instruction.

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