MCP connector for searching the Freecase legal corpus (case law + statutes) from AI agents.
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# freecase-mcp An [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) connector that lets AI agents — Claude Desktop, Cursor, Hermes, and any other MCP host — search and read the [Freecase](https://freecase.ai) legal corpus: U.S. case law (Illinois, federal, the Supreme Court, the 7th Circuit) and a growing set of state and federal statutes. It is a thin client. It calls the public Freecase backend over HTTPS and never touches a database — nothing to install a database driver for, no credentials on your machine beyond your personal connector key. --- ## What you get Five tools: | Tool | Needs a key? | What it does | |------|:---:|------| | `search_cases` | Yes | Full-text case-law search (Illinois, federal, SCOTUS, 7th Circuit). Returns ranked results with citations, courts, dates, and snippets. | | `search_statutes` | Yes | Statute search by citation (`625 ILCS 5/11-501`) or plain text, across the launched jurisdictions. | | `get_opinion` | No | Full text of one opinion by `cluster_id`, plus its cited-by list and parentheticals. | | `get_statute` | No | Full text of one statute section by `section_id`, including repealed/renumbered history. | | `get_citations` | No | The parsed reporter citations for one case. | The two `search_*` tools require a **connector key**. The three `get_*` tools are public and work with no key at all. --- ## Prerequisites You need a way to run the connector on your machine. The config examples below use [`uv`](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) (specifically `uvx`), which downloads and runs `freecase-mcp` in one step with no manual install. Install `uv` once: - **macOS / Linux:** `curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh` - **Windows (PowerShell):** `powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"` `uv` bundles its own Python, so you do not need a separate Python install. > **Note:** `uvx freecase-mcp` works once the package is published to PyPI. > Until then, run it from a local checkout — see > [Running from a local checkou…
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