search_legislation

MCP tool from Jurisd by russellbrenner

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

How to use it

Project documentation lists search_legislation for the Jurisd MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), then check which tools your installed version makes available. Tool availability can depend on configuration and credentials. A server handshake does not verify this tool’s behavior. See the full listing for setup details.

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.

resolve_citation

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

search_cases

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

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.