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Full text of US government publications — laws, CFR, Federal Register, hearings, public laws. Reuses your data.gov key.

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list_collections

List GovInfo collections (BILLS, CFR, USCODE, FR, CHRG, CRPT, HMAN, PLAW, SERIALSET, USCOURTS, etc.) with package counts. Use the collection code with search_packages to filter.

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search_packages

Full-text + faceted search across GovInfo. Filter by one or more collection codes (BILLS, FR, CFR, USCODE, CHRG, CRPT, CREC, PLAW, USCOURTS...), date range, congress, and free-text query. Several code

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get_package

Metadata for a single package by packageId (e.g., "BILLS-118hr1234ih", "FR-2024-05-12"). Returns title, dates, citations, granule count, download links (PDF/XML/MODS).

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list_granules

List granules within a package — e.g., sections of a CFR title, individual entries in a Federal Register issue. Returns granule IDs + titles.

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get_granule

Fetch summary metadata for a single granule (sub-unit) within a GovInfo package, given package_id and granule_id (both from list_granules). Returns title, class, and provenance fields from the GovInfo

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gao_red_book

Find the chapter of GAO's Principles of Federal Appropriations Law — the Red Book — that governs a federal appropriations, fiscal-law or government-funding question, described in plain words. Answers

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gao_comptroller_decisions

Search Comptroller General decisions and opinions — the B-numbered rulings in which GAO decides federal appropriations and fiscal-law disputes, the precedent the Red Book itself cites. Give a topic in

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/govinfo/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/govinfo/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"list_collections","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("list_collections", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("full text of us government publications — laws, cfr, federal register, hearings, public laws");