Descrybe Legal Engine
by Descrybe (Community)
Description
The 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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- Descrybe Legal Engine is categorized as Productivity.
- Developer: Descrybe.
- Connector type: AI-Powered App.
- Current connector status: Connected.
- Observed distribution channels: claude.
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Auth, tools, and actions
Authentication: Requires Login. No special capability flags are currently listed. Current MCP inventory reports 13 tools, 0 resources, and 0 prompts.
- Analyze Legal Question · Read-only action
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_research or needs_clarification with up to three short clarifying questions.
- Check Case Status · Read-only action
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, cautiously, or neutrally, plus a rough authority-weight label. This is a fast status check, not a full citing-case map and not a forum-specific binding analysis.
- Extract Case References · Read-only action
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 citations seen, and tagged excerpts. When resolve=true, results include compact case-identity resolution and a quick treatment indicator for each resolved case, including case_id when a Descrybe case is resolved. This does not verify quotes, analyze support, or return a full citing-case treatment map.
- Find Case from Reference · Read-only action
Resolves a citation, case name, docket number, short cite, quote, or mixed reference into a Descrybe case or candidate set. Resolved cases and candidates include case_id, the Descrybe canonical identifier accepted by known-case tools. The context_text field can improve short, bare, or ambiguous references.
- Find Cases That Cite · Read-only action
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 the case. Returned citing cases include case_id when a Descrybe case is identified.
- Get Case Details · Read-only action
Retrieves case metadata, summary availability, opinion inventory, and treatment summary for a known Descrybe case. Requires a Descrybe case_id.
- Get Case Passages · Read-only action
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 full-opinion fetch and does not return every occurrence.
- Get Case PDF · Repeatable action
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 user instead of trying to download the file.
Plus 5 additional actions in the full tool inventory.
Verification freshness
- Catalog synced 1d ago (June 5, 2026)
- Connector checked May 30, 2026
- MCP scanned May 30, 2026
- Website enriched May 29, 2026
- Directory updated 1d ago (June 5, 2026)
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Server Status descrybe-mcp-gateway v0.1.0
https://mcp.descrybe.com/mcp Last checked: May 30, 2026
Server Instructions
Descrybe Legal Engine provides read-only access to structured U.S. primary law, including authority-ranked case law, statutes, regulations, citations, quotes, and case treatment; use `search_cases_by_concept` for issue-based case research and `find_case_from_reference` when the user gives a citation, case name, or docket number.
Technical Details
Tools(13)
Showing 13 of 13 tools
| Tool | Description | Flags | Test | Last Tested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
analyze_legal_question | 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_research or needs_clarification with up to three short clarifying questions. | read-only | 0%Latency 184ms | May 30, 2026 | |
check_case_status | 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, cautiously, or neutrally, plus a rough authority-weight label. This is a fast status check, not a full citing-case map and not a forum-specific binding analysis. | read-only | 0%Latency 92ms | May 30, 2026 | |
extract_case_references | 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 citations seen, and tagged excerpts. When resolve=true, results include compact case-identity resolution and a quick treatment indicator for each resolved case, including case_id when a Descrybe case is resolved. This does not verify quotes, analyze support, or return a full citing-case treatment map. | read-only | 0%Latency 87ms | May 30, 2026 | |
find_case_from_reference | Resolves a citation, case name, docket number, short cite, quote, or mixed reference into a Descrybe case or candidate set. Resolved cases and candidates include case_id, the Descrybe canonical identifier accepted by known-case tools. The context_text field can improve short, bare, or ambiguous references. | read-only | 0%Latency 90ms | May 30, 2026 | |
find_cases_that_cite | 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 the case. Returned citing cases include case_id when a Descrybe case is identified. | read-only | 0%Latency 90ms | May 30, 2026 | |
get_case_details | Retrieves case metadata, summary availability, opinion inventory, and treatment summary for a known Descrybe case. Requires a Descrybe case_id. | read-only | 0%Latency 91ms | May 30, 2026 | |
get_case_passages | 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 full-opinion fetch and does not return every occurrence. | read-only | 0%Latency 105ms | May 30, 2026 | |
get_case_pdf | 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 user instead of trying to download the file. | — | 0%Latency 94ms | May 30, 2026 | |
get_case_summary | 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 for a simplified or plain-language explanation. | read-only | 0%Latency 97ms | May 30, 2026 | |
search_case_text | 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 uncommon factual wording. Each result includes case_id, the Descrybe canonical identifier accepted by known-case tools. | read-only | 0%Latency 91ms | May 30, 2026 | |
search_cases_by_concept | 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. Results are authority-ranked by default to surface stronger legal authorities before ordinary text matches. Use date sorting only when the user asks for recent or newest cases. Each result includes case_id, the Descrybe canonical identifier accepted by known-case tools. | read-only | 0%Latency 93ms | May 30, 2026 | |
search_laws_and_rules | Semantic/concept search over U.S. non-case primary law, including statutes, regulations, and constitutional provisions. Useful for legal rules outside judicial opinions when the issue, rule, citation, or topic can be described in natural language. Results are ranked by concept similarity and returned with compact matched source passages. | read-only | 0%Latency 92ms | May 30, 2026 | |
verify_quote | 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, where it matched, and which opinion contained it. | read-only | 0%Latency 91ms | May 30, 2026 |
Discoverability Score
Fair
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- Description quality20/20
- Example prompts0/20
- Keyword coverage0/15
- Tool metadata20/20
- Visual assets13/20
- Endpoint health10/10
- Data freshness15/15
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Technical Details
- Status
- ENABLED
- Type
- AI-Powered App
- Auth
- Requires Login
- Listed on
- Claude Connector
- Added
- May 11, 2026
- Last synced
- 1d ago
- Last checked
- May 30, 2026
- Version
- 0.1.0
- Distribution
- Ecosystem Directory
