resolve_citation

MCP tool from Jurisd by russellbrenner

Resolve a citation to its source. mode: auto (default), validate (AustLII existence check), search.

How to use it

resolve_citation is exposed by the Jurisd MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the resolve_citation tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.

Install Jurisd

$npx -y jurisd

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Other tools in Jurisd (11)

bibliography

Read the local citation cache (no network). op: get, list (default), export (.bib), citedby.

cite

Write to the local citation cache. action: add (default) or refreshsource (conditional-HEAD freshness check).

fetch_document_text

Fetch full text from an AustLII URL (HTML, PDF).

find_citing

Documents in installed modules that cite a target, with each citation's provenance span.

format_citation

Format an AGLC4 citation. mode: full (default), short, ibid, subsequent, pinpoint.

get_act_structure

Containment tree of an Act (Act → Part → Division → section/schedule/clause) over actprovision edges, closed-world.

get_provision

Deterministic provision lookup (e.g. s 18 of an Act). No embedding, no ranking; typed not-found so the router can fall through.

list_data_modules

Introspect installed modules: coverage, doc/chunk counts, embedding descriptor, load status, snapshot date and staleness.

search_cases

Natural-language case-law search across all AU/NZ jurisdictions; authority ranking; title/phrase/boolean methods; pagination.

search_legislation

Search AU/NZ legislation with the same method/jurisdiction/sort controls.

semantic_search_local

Vector recall: the query is embedded locally (bge-small, offline, no key) and ranked by cosine over chunk embeddings, with optional facet pre-filters.