legal-text-mcp-de¶

A Python Model Context Protocol server and HTTP API for loading, validating, searching, and resolving German legal texts with source provenance.

Not legal advice

This software returns text and structured metadata. It does not interpret the law, advise on it, or produce any legal conclusion. The maintainer assumes no liability for use in legal decision-making contexts.

What it is¶

An MCP server (streamable HTTP transport, default :8001/mcp) that exposes nine tools for German federal laws and EU acts.
A FastAPI HTTP API over the same runtime, for non-MCP clients.
Local or server-side infrastructure: no SaaS, no accounts, no tenant model, no editorial-content bundling.

What it is not¶

A legal-advice engine. No interpretation, no AI legal reasoning.
A hosted service. You run it locally or on your own infrastructure.
A bundler of editorial law text. Texts come from official sources (gesetze-im-internet.de, EUR-Lex / Cellar) at runtime.

Quickstart¶

uvx legal-text-mcp-de

See Quickstart → uvx for the full setup, Claude Desktop, or Docker.

Architecture at a glance¶

flowchart LR
  Client[MCP client] -->|streamable HTTP :8001/mcp| Server
  Client2[HTTP client] -->|FastAPI :8080| Server
  Server[legal-text-mcp-de] -->|loads| Dataset
  Dataset[(DATASET_PATH)] -->|fixture or generated| Sources
  Sources[gesetze-im-internet.de
EUR-Lex / Cellar]

The server runs against either committed fixture packages (deterministic CI tests) or a generated production corpus (DATASET_PATH=...).