Tribunus Brasil MCP

Tribunus Plebis, auditing and scrutinizing public representatives in defense of the public interest and working people.

Tribunus Brasil MCP is an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects Large Language Models directly to open data from the Brazilian National Congress (Federal Senate and Chamber of Deputies).

It structures a socio-economic analysis of each mandate (every merit vote in plenary, organized interests, destination of public money, publicity, agenda and discourse) from the standpoint of working people, and returns it with instructions for the LLM to interpret it: votes are read against the Constitution's social and labor rights with criteria from labor and political-economy research, and the mandate's own spending against the principles of art. 37 (legalidade, impessoalidade, moralidade, publicidade, eficiência). Criteria and sources: methodology.

PyPI: tribunus-brasil-mcp - Changelog: releases

Installation

The package is published on PyPI. The server runs locally over stdio and reads only public data, with no API keys.

MCP clients, with uvx (recommended)

With uv installed, add the server to your MCP client configuration (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or mcp_config.json). uvx downloads the package from PyPI and runs it in an isolated environment.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tribunus-brasil": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["tribunus-brasil-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

This mcpServers format is the one used by Claude Desktop, Cursor and Antigravity; clients with their own settings format, such as Zed, take the same command: uvx tribunus-brasil-mcp.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio tribunus-brasil -- uvx tribunus-brasil-mcp

More options in the Claude Code MCP documentation.

pip

pip install tribunus-brasil-mcp

This installs the tribunus-brasil-mcp command, to be used as the command in the client configuration (with no args).

Usage

Ask in natural language and the assistant chooses the tool. For example:

The server also provides the prompt avaliarParlamentar(nome, casa): a parecer on a mandate, written from evaluateParliamentarian by following its instrucao.

Available Tools

Each tool queries the official open-data services (live APIs and yearly bulk files) and returns structured, LLM-optimized JSON. The two mandate-analysis tools also return an instrucao: the analytical framework the LLM follows to interpret the data.

Mandate analysis

• evaluateParliamentarian(name, house, year, parliamentarianId, desde)

  • Investigative roadmap of a mandate from the standpoint of working people, organized by five axes (labor, income, social security and taxation; public services, social rights and environment; public patrimony, infrastructure and national sovereignty; public administration, justice and constitutional guarantees; transparency, morality and social control), returned with an instrucao for the LLM. Each bill is read by who gains and who pays, its effect on capital-labor relations, market dependence, the public fund and taxation, the fraction of capital it favors, hidden retrenchment, the evidence behind promised benefits, and self-dealing and clientelism.
  • votacoes_por_eixo: every merit vote in plenary, classified into the axes by the houses' official themes (transparency by what the bill regulates), with result, margin, party majority, government orientation, positioning under each government and absences in contested votes. desde extends the period (e.g. 2019) to compare behavior across governments.
  • base_social: parliamentary fronts grouped by organized-interest bloc, committees.
  • fundo_publico: individual amendments by year, function and recipient type, special transfers, territorial concentration and birthplace.
  • publicidade: the auditPublicity indicators.
  • agenda_e_discurso: bills and speeches since the start of the legislature.

• auditPublicity(name, house, year, parliamentarianId)

  • What a citizen can verify about a mandate: CEAP receipts published, supplier traceability against the Receita Federal registry, paid self-promotion (also in minimum wages), amendment destinations (including transferências especiais), plenary votes with a known position.
  • Each indicator carries counts and R$ values with their base and percentage, evidence, accountability questions and an instrucao for the LLM.
  • Keyless: bulk downloads (Portal da Transparência, Câmara, Senado) and public mirrors of the CNPJ registry (BrasilAPI, minhareceita.org) and the Banco Central minimum wage series.

Parliamentarian records

• getParliamentarianProfile(name, house, includeVotes, limit, parliamentarianId)

  • Unified bicameral profile of any Brazilian parliamentarian (Senator or Federal Deputy): civil name, parliamentary name, house (Senado Federal or Câmara dos Deputados), party, state (UF), email, photo, active committee assignments, and authored legislative proposals.

• getParliamentarianVotes(name, house, limit, year, parliamentarianId)

  • Nominal roll-call voting records, detailing bill subjects and the legislator's specific vote positions (Sim, Não, Abstenção, Obstrução).
  • Reports plenary participation (roll calls held vs. votes cast); for the Senate, justified and unjustified absences are separated.

• getParliamentarianExpenses(name, house, year, month, limit, parliamentarianId)

  • Itemized and aggregated CEAP (Cota para o Exercício da Atividade Parlamentar) expenditures, built from the complete yearly records.
  • Total spending, categorical breakdown (airfare, housing, publicity, advisory), top suppliers, and (Chamber) receipts without a digitized document.

• getParliamentarianActivity(name, house, startDate, endDate, limit, parliamentarianId)

  • Institutional activity records, including plenary sessions, committee deliberations, public hearings, and floor speeches. Defaults to the current year.

Bills and themes

• searchCongressionalThemes(theme, house, limit, year)

  • Synthesizes congressional activity surrounding a public policy topic (e.g. "inteligência artificial", "reforma tributária", "transição energética") into a consolidated bicameral overview of bills, speeches, hearings, committee agendas and roll-call votes.

• searchLegislativeProposals(keyword, year, limit)

  • Searches the Senate for specific legislative proposals and bills (e.g., PL 2630/2020) using keywords and optional year filters.

• getBillText(number, year)

  • Metadata, current status, primary document URL, and extracted text of a bill from the Senate (with automatic PDF text extraction).

Identification and provenance

• house is 'auto' (default, searches both houses), 'senado' or 'camara'.
• Parliamentarian tools accept name or parliamentarianId (Senate CodigoParlamentar or Chamber deputy id). A name shared by more than one parliamentarian (e.g. "Lira": Arthur Lira, Átila Lira) returns the list of candidatos, to retry with the id.
• Every result carries a metadados block (source URL, period, record count, completeness, limitations), so each figure can be checked at its source.

Use as a library

The same collection and classification can be imported from Python, without the MCP protocol and without the summarizing done for LLMs:

from tribunus_brasil_mcp.identity import list_in_office, resolve_parliamentarian
from tribunus_brasil_mcp.votes import vote_records, positioning_by_government
from tribunus_brasil_mcp.publicity import audit_publicity
from tribunus_brasil_mcp.evaluation import public_fund
from tribunus_brasil_mcp.routine import weekly_routine    # days in Brasília per week
from tribunus_brasil_mcp.staff import office_staff        # people in the office

parl = await resolve_parliamentarian(house="camara", parliamentarian_id=204554)
records = await vote_records(parl, [2023, 2024, 2025])  # every merit roll call, with axes

Data Sources

• Federal Senate: legislative open data and administrative open data (CEAPS)
• Chamber of Deputies: open data API v2 and yearly bulk files: CEAP (https://www.camara.leg.br/cotas/Ano-{year}.csv.zip) and roll-call votes (https://dadosabertos.camara.leg.br/arquivos/)
• Budget amendments: Portal da Transparência bulk download
• CNPJ registry: BrasilAPI, with Minha Receita as fallback
• Minimum wage: Banco Central SGS series 1619

Bulk files are cached in ~/.cache/tribunus-brasil-mcp (override with TRIBUNUS_CACHE_DIR): refreshed daily for the current year, monthly for past years. The first call for a year downloads ~70 MB for the Chamber; the first publicity audit also downloads the amendments file (~32 MB) and looks up each supplier CNPJ once (cached for 30 days).

License

MIT License.

Local Development / Installation from Source

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/GBdeMiranda/tribunus-brasil-mcp.git
   cd tribunus-brasil-mcp
   

2. Install dependencies and editable package (with uv; pip install -e . also works):

   uv sync
   

3. Run the server manually:

   uv run tribunus-brasil-mcp
   

4. Run the tests:

   uv run python -m unittest discover -s tests
   

To try the tools interactively, point the MCP Inspector at the command uv run tribunus-brasil-mcp.

Releasing

Bump version in pyproject.toml (uv version --bump minor or --bump patch also updates uv.lock) and merge into main. The publish workflow then publishes the version to PyPI and creates the vX.Y.Z tag and the GitHub release.