# freecase-mcp

> MCP connector for searching the Freecase legal corpus (case law + statutes) from AI agents.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/freecase-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Freecase
- homepage: https://freecase.ai
- version: 0.1.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agent, case-law, freecase, legal, llm, mcp, statutes
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:freecase-mcp

### Description (declared)

# 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.

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## 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| `get_statute` | No | Full text of one statute section by `section_id`, including repealed/renumbered history.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.

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## 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…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- documents.contracts (1, declared)
- dev.package-management (0.768, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/freecase-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T15:23:44.482Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/freecase-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/freecase-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:freecase-mcp