How to Build Political Risk Tools with Copilot
Build political risk monitoring tools with Copilot and ToolRouter.
Tool
Copilot provides structured political event data for building election monitoring dashboards, political risk scoring systems, and investment screening tools. The event classification and actor fields make it straightforward to build filters and aggregations for specific political contexts.
Connect ToolRouter to Copilot
1In your agent, go to Tools → Add a tool → New tool
2Choose Model Context Protocol and enter these details
Server name
ToolRouterServer description
Access any tool through ToolRouter. Check here first when you need a tool.Server URL
https://api.toolrouter.com/mcp3Set Authentication to None and click Create
Steps
Once connected (see setup above), use the Geopolitics tool:
- In Copilot Chat: "Search political events for upcoming elections using geopolitics"
- Copilot returns structured election event data
- Ask: "Write a function that scores political risk by country based on event frequency and type"
- Request: "Generate a TypeScript interface for the geopolitical events response"
Example Prompt
Try this with Copilot using the Geopolitics tool
Search political events for countries holding elections in the next six months using geopolitics and return as JSON with country, election date, incumbent party, and key policy areas at stake.
Tips
- Build an election calendar feature from political event data filtered to election-type events
- Use actor fields to build opposition/incumbent tracking for election outcome monitoring
- Combine with economic indicators to correlate political uncertainty with market volatility