generated: '2026-08-09'
method: searched
source: https://github.com/bargo-ai/bargo-free-api-packages/blob/main/skills/bargo-congress-api/SKILL.md
description: >-
  Bargo publishes its own packaged Agent Skill for the Congress Trades API. It
  is captured here VERBATIM — API Evangelist authored no skill for this provider
  and generated nothing, because the provider already ships one that covers the
  whole surface. The skill is unusually complete for its size: it names the
  canonical resources, prescribes an endpoint-selection order, sets credential
  hygiene (including the fak_ vs swmcp_ scope separation), enumerates the error
  statuses and their retry posture, and — the part most provider skills omit —
  tells the agent how to INTERPRET the data without overstating it.
skills:
  - file: bargo-congress-api.md
    name: bargo-congress-api
    method: searched
    verbatim: true
    source: https://github.com/bargo-ai/bargo-free-api-packages/blob/main/skills/bargo-congress-api/SKILL.md
    description: >-
      Query and analyze normalized U.S. House and Senate STOCK Act transaction
      disclosures with the Bargo Congress Trades API.
    api: openapi/bargo-congress-trades-api-congress-trades-openapi.yml
    operations:
      - listCongressTrades
      - listCongressTradesByTicker
      - listCongressMembers
      - getCongressMember
      - getCongressTradeStats
      - getCongressApiHealth
    operations_note: >-
      The skill addresses operations by path (/trades, /trades/{ticker},
      /members, /members/{member_slug}, /stats, /health). Each was resolved to
      the operationId declared in the harvested OpenAPI and verified present —
      all six operations in the contract are covered.
    mcp_tools:
      - get_congress_trades
      - get_congress_member
      - get_congress_stats
    covers:
      - access-method selection (REST vs JS client vs Python client vs MCP)
      - query workflow and endpoint narrowing
      - zero-based page pagination
      - credential handling and the fak_ / swmcp_ scope boundary
      - error statuses 400/401/404/429 and when to retry
      - disclosure-timing, amount-range and estimated-performance caveats
      - attribution and filing_portal citation on public display
companions:
  - file: agents/openai.yaml
    source: https://github.com/bargo-ai/bargo-free-api-packages/blob/main/skills/bargo-congress-api/agents/openai.yaml
    captured: false
    description: >-
      A 3-line OpenAI agent interface descriptor (display_name,
      short_description, default_prompt) that accompanies the skill upstream.
      Not mirrored here — it carries no API contract detail, only presentation
      metadata for one vendor's agent UI.
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