Descrybe Legal Engine
com.descrybe/descrybeThe Descrybe Connector gives Claude access to legal research tools for working with primary law. It can help analyze a research question, search cases by legal concept or exact wording, find cases from citations or messy references, extract authorities from pasted text, retrieve summaries, case PDFs, and focused opinion passages, search statutes and regulations, check case treatment status, find citing cases, and verify quoted language against known cases.
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Assess a broad or fact-dependent legal research question before searching to identify the jurisdiction, facts, legal issue, and procedural context needed for useful research. Returns ready_for_researc…
Use this first when the user wants to find leading or relevant cases about a legal issue, doctrine, fact pattern, jurisdiction, claim, defense, or topic and does not already have a Descrybe case_id. R…
Semantic/concept search over U.S. non-case primary law, including statutes, regulations, constitutional provisions, court rules, and session laws (enacted bills). Useful for legal rules outside judici…
Searches the full text of judicial opinions by exact words or phrases across Descrybe's case-law text index. Useful when specific language matters, such as terms of art, quotes, statutory phrases, or …
Resolves a citation, case name, case caption, party name, party-name variant, docket number, short cite, quote, or mixed reference into a Descrybe case or candidate set. Use this for party-name or doc…
Extracts case-law citations and references from legal text provided in the text argument. Returns one item per unique resolved case or best unresolved reference cluster, with occurrence counts, raw ci…
Retrieves the precomputed standard or simplified summary for a known Descrybe case's primary opinion. Requires a Descrybe case_id; for legal research, prefer the standard summary unless the user asks …
Returns a small ranked list of focused raw passages from a known Descrybe case's primary opinion. Requires a Descrybe case_id and a focus issue, phrase, rule, quote, or fact pattern. This is not a ful…
Retrieves case metadata, summary availability, opinion inventory, and treatment summary for a known Descrybe case. Requires a Descrybe case_id. The result can include Later history lines, such as a Su…
Checks a known Descrybe case for a quick treatment/status signal before relying on it. Requires a Descrybe case_id. Returns whether later cases appear to treat the case positively, negatively, cautiou…
Finds later cases that cite a known Descrybe case. Requires a Descrybe case_id. Useful for updating research, finding treatment, or locating newer authority that follows, distinguishes, or discusses t…
Verifies whether quoted language appears in a known Descrybe case and locates the matching opinion. Requires a Descrybe case_id and exact or near-exact quote text. Returns whether the quote was found,…
Creates or reuses a generated Descrybe case PDF asset and returns its public URL. Requires a Descrybe case_id. Returns URL/job metadata or preparation status, not PDF bytes; present the URL to the use…
How to use
Claude Desktop or claude.ai: add a custom connector (Customize → Connectors; on Team and Enterprise plans an owner adds it under Organization settings → Connectors) with this server URL: https://mcp.descrybe.com/mcp
Cursor or Cline: add to your MCP config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"descrybe_legal_engine": {
"url": "https://mcp.descrybe.com/mcp",
"transport": "streamable-http"
}
}
}