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legal-text-mcp-de MCP

An MCP server providing access to approximately 8,500 German federal, state, and EU legal texts including BGB and DSGVO. It offers tools for listing laws, fetching norms, resolving citations, and full-text search, ensuring cite-grade provenance from official sources like gesetze-im-internet.de and EUR-Lex without providing legal advice.

Package and access

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legal-text-mcp-de MCP logo, by klein-businessCommunity listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by klein-business
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Checks and signals

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  • Popularity 2 GitHub stars

What you can do with it

  • List available German federal and state laws
  • Fetch specific legal norms and texts
  • Resolve legal citations with provenance
  • Perform full-text search across legal corpus

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 2.1.3Apache-2.0
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Latest release
v2.1.3
Maintenance checked

Packages and installation

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legal-text-mcp-de 2.1.3

pypiuvx
legal-text-mcp-de package definition
{
  "version": "2.1.3",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "legal-text-mcp-de",
  "runtimeHint": "uvx",
  "registryType": "pypi",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
  "runtimeArguments": [
    {
      "type": "positional",
      "value": "serve",
      "valueHint": "subcommand"
    }
  ],
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "DATASET_PATH",
      "format": "filepath",
      "description": "Path to a normalised corpus directory or a corpus archive (legal-texts-de-*.tar.zst). Defaults to the bundled fixture; production deployments should mount /data/corpus/latest.tar.zst."
    },
    {
      "name": "STRICT_DATASET",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "false",
      "description": "Set to 'true' to refuse to start if the dataset cannot be loaded (recommended for hosted deployments)."
    },
    {
      "name": "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Optional. Required only for the smart `research_topic` tool which uses LLM-assisted synthesis. Without it, the tool degrades gracefully to a ranked-search fallback."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "legal-text-mcp-de-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "legal-text-mcp-de==2.1.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATASET_PATH": "<YOUR_DATASET_PATH>",
        "STRICT_DATASET": "<YOUR_STRICT_DATASET>",
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "legal-text-mcp-de-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "legal-text-mcp-de==2.1.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATASET_PATH": "<YOUR_DATASET_PATH>",
        "STRICT_DATASET": "<YOUR_STRICT_DATASET>",
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "legal-text-mcp-de-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "legal-text-mcp-de==2.1.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATASET_PATH": "<YOUR_DATASET_PATH>",
        "STRICT_DATASET": "<YOUR_STRICT_DATASET>",
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "legal-text-mcp-de-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "legal-text-mcp-de==2.1.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATASET_PATH": "<YOUR_DATASET_PATH>",
        "STRICT_DATASET": "<YOUR_STRICT_DATASET>",
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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