# Track a US policy topic from Congress to the states. Bills, rules and comment dockets in one dated brief 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. - For: Public affairs teams, trade associations and compliance leads - Providers: 6 (GovInfo, Congress.gov, Open States, Federal Register, Regulations.gov and Tavily), 7 tools - Example (One bill search, two reads of one bill, one state search, one rule search, one docket search and one press search): at most $0.008, computed from the live catalog - Updated: 2026-11-04 ## Each provider does one part No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection and one prepaid balance. - **GovInfo** (1 tool, free): Full-text search of federal bills. - **Congress.gov** (2 tools, free): A bill's status, sponsors and dated actions. - **Open States** (1 tool, free): Bills in the state legislatures you name. - **Federal Register** (1 tool, free): Proposed and final agency rules. - **Regulations.gov** (1 tool, free): Rulemaking dockets open to public comment. - **Tavily** (1 tool, at most $0.008): Press coverage and industry reaction. ## Give this to your agent ```text 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. ``` ## You provide - The policy topic, in the words a law would use - The states you care about - The period to cover ## Before this job - The tools must be available in your connected Agentik catalog. Ask for the missing provider configuration if a tool is unavailable. ## What you get: a dated policy brief with every bill, rule and docket cited - Federal bills with status and latest action - State bills by jurisdiction - Agency rules and comment dockets - Dated next steps and what to watch ## How to track a US policy topic across federal and state sources in Claude or ChatGPT Prices are the most each call can reserve for this example: One bill search, two reads of one bill, one state search, one rule search, one docket search and one press search. ### 1. Find and read federal bills Search the exact phrase, then read the status and actions of the bills that really concern the topic. - [GovInfo publication search](/tools/govinfo/search.md) `govinfo/search` (GovInfo): free - [Congress.gov bill detail](/tools/congress-gov/bill.md) `congress-gov/bill` (Congress.gov): free - [Congress.gov bill actions and texts](/tools/congress-gov/bill-section.md) `congress-gov/bill-section` (Congress.gov): free ### 2. Search the state legislatures Quote the phrase to avoid unrelated bills. Run one search per state you name. - [Open States state bill search](/tools/openstates/bill-search.md) `openstates/bill-search` (Open States): free ### 3. Read agency rules and dockets Keep the comment deadline of any open docket. - [Federal Register document search](/tools/federal-register/document-search.md) `federal-register/document-search` (Federal Register): free - [Regulations.gov docket search](/tools/regulations-gov/docket-search.md) `regulations-gov/docket-search` (Regulations.gov): free ### 4. Read the press Use coverage for context and reaction, and cite the official text for what a measure says. - [Tavily agent search](/tools/tavily/search.md) `tavily/search` (Tavily): at most $0.008 Example total: at most $0.008. Each call is billed for measured usage; unused reservations are released. ## Ask it your way - Track a US policy topic for me across federal and state sources. - Keep the sample small and cite the source for each conclusion. ## Why through Agentik - Collect the official sources through one Agentik connection. - Inspect the price of each bounded call before running it. - Keep each figure beside its source and date. ## 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. ## US policy tracker: 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. ## Keep going - [Fact-check a claim](/fact-check.md): A claim checked against the web, the news, research papers and Wikipedia, with where it started and what is still uncertain. - [Weekly newsletter draft](/newsletter-draft.md): The week’s news, X posts and Reddit threads on your topic, the best ones read in full, turned into a newsletter draft with links. - [Market research](/market-research.md): The companies in the space, their pricing pages, Google search demand for the category, and what buyers say on Lemmy and X. - [Research tools for your agent](/tools/research.md) - [News tools for your agent](/tools/news.md) [All playbooks](/playbooks.md) · [Connection guides](/docs/clients.md) · [Billing](/docs/billing.md) --- [HTML page](/us-policy-tracker) · [Agent index](/llms.txt)