Pierre Review MCP Server

Talk to South Dakota's 101st legislative session from any AI assistant that supports the Model Context Protocol — Claude Desktop, Cursor, Zed, and others. Every answer cites pierrereview.com. Looking for the REST API or enterprise SSO? See Integrations.

Endpoint

https://pierrereview.com/api/mcp

Stateless Streamable HTTP transport. No authentication. Public, free, rate-limited to 60 requests/minute and 1000/hour per IP.

Claude Desktop

Edit your claude_desktop_config.json (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/ on macOS, %APPDATA%\Claude\ on Windows) and add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sd-legislature": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://pierrereview.com/api/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

The mcp-remote shim is required because Claude Desktop currently only speaks stdio MCP. Restart Claude after editing.

Cursor / Zed / native HTTP clients

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sd-legislature": {
      "url": "https://pierrereview.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Example prompts

What's in HB1139, the General Appropriations Act?
How did Sen. Crabtree vote on bills about education?
Predict the floor vote on SB96.
Which bills are scheduled for hearings today?
Show me every bill in the House State Affairs committee.

Tools (14)

search_bills

Full-text search across South Dakota bills (title, description, bill number, AI summary). Returns up to 50 matches sorted by most recent action. Defaults to the current 2026 session.

get_bill

Get full detail for a single bill by its number (e.g. "HB1139", "SB96"). Returns sponsors, action history, votes, AI summary, and a citation URL on pierrereview.com.

get_bill_text

Get the most recent full text of a bill (HTML and plain text). Useful for reading a bill in full or feeding it to a downstream prompt.

get_bill_diffs

Get computed diffs between a bill and the South Dakota Codified Laws it amends. Each diff is word-level HTML (<ins>/<del>) keyed by statute section.

list_bills

List bills with optional filters (pipeline stage, category, chamber, status). Pipeline stages: introduced, committee, passed_origin, crossover, governor, enacted, vetoed, tabled, dead, ceremonial.

recent_activity

Get the most recent legislative actions across all bills (committee referrals, votes, signings, etc.) sorted newest first.

todays_hearings

Get scheduled committee hearings for today (or the next available date with hearings).

get_legislator

Get detail for a single legislator by name, id, sd_person_id, or sd_session_member_id. Returns biographical info, party loyalty, top voting categories, and sponsored-bill count.

get_legislator_votes

Get a legislator's individual vote records for the session, newest first.

get_legislator_sponsored_bills

Get every bill a legislator has sponsored or co-sponsored in the session.

list_legislators

List legislators in the session, with optional chamber/party/district filters.

get_committee

Get full detail for a committee by slug (e.g. "house-state-affairs", "senate-judiciary"). Returns members, bills referred, recorded votes, and pass-rate stats.

get_session_stats

Get session-level statistics: bills by pipeline stage, by chamber, plus the top newsworthy bills.

predict_vote_count

Predict how each legislator would vote on a bill, using their issue-level voting history and party loyalty. Returns a per-legislator confidence label (likely_yea, lean_yea, tossup, lean_nay, likely_nay, excused) plus a chamber-wide summary. The differentiator vs. the raw SDL API.

Source

Server source lives in the pierrereview.com repo. Found a bug or want a tool added? Open an issue.