About Scope (Legal)
Scope (Legal) is an MCP server for legal teams that dispatches litigation work to credentialed professionals and returns prices from their published rate cards. It also provides matter, vendor, roster, and spend management tools.
Key features
- 01Dispatch matters to professionals
- 02Retrieve rate-card prices
- 03Track matters and vendors
- 04Manage professional rosters
- 05Review spend and credentials
Use cases
- 01Request court reporting or IME services
- 02Find vendors for e-discovery or translation
- 03Review open matters and vendor credentials
MCP support
Exposes legal dispatch, matter and roster management, and vendor oversight tools to MCP clients. It supports package-based setup and an HTTP transport endpoint.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://scope.bid/api/mcp/legalclaude mcp add --transport http bid-scope-legal https://scope.bid/api/mcp/legal{"mcpServers":{"bid-scope-legal":{"type":"http","url":"https://scope.bid/api/mcp/legal"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"bid-scope-legal":{"type":"http","url":"https://scope.bid/api/mcp/legal"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"bid-scope-legal":{"type":"http","url":"https://scope.bid/api/mcp/legal"}}}{"mcpServers":{"bid-scope-legal":{"serverUrl":"https://scope.bid/api/mcp/legal"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
10This tool takes no parameters.
Details
From the project README@scope-bid/scope-mcp
Hire your next vendor through your AI.
Model Context Protocol servers for Scope.bid professional dispatch across legal, insurance claims, and AEC services.
scope.bid | MCP Registry | npm | Plugin marketplace
What this is
Three Model Context Protocol servers that let AI assistants dispatch requests to credentialed human professionals and get back each professional's price, computed from their own published rate card.
@scope-bid/scope-mcp- legal vertical (court reporters, IMEs, records, experts, e-discovery, translation, mediators, trial graphics, foreign-jurisdiction counsel, more)@scope-bid/scope-claims-mcp- insurance claims (IMEs, surveillance, peer review, voc rehab, life-care plans, defense medical record review)@scope-bid/scope-aec-mcp- AEC (subcontractor prequal, bonding, safety records, dispatch)
Scope.bid is the first vertical-services MCP platform on Anthropic's official Model Context Protocol Registry. Three namespaces are claimed under DNS-verified bid.scope/* (legal, claims, AEC). Two are reserved (healthcare, pharma).
Scope.bid is not affiliated with scope-bid.com, an unrelated laboratory equipment auction platform.
Install
npm install -g @scope-bid/scope-mcp
npm install -g @scope-bid/scope-claims-mcp
npm install -g @scope-bid/scope-aec-mcp
For most clients you do not need to install globally. Use npx -y @scope-bid/scope-mcp directly from your MCP client config.
Configure (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor)
{
"mcpServers": {
"scope-legal": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@scope-bid/scope-mcp"],
"env": {
"SCOPE_API_TOKEN": "your-token-here"
}
},
"scope-claims": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@scope-bid/scope-claims-mcp"],
"env": {
"SCOPE_API_TOKEN": "your-token-here"
}
}
}
}
For read-only demo usage the token is optional.
Or use HTTP transport (no install)
{
"mcpServers": {
"scope-legal": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://scope.bid/api/mcp/legal",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer your-token-here" }
}
}
}
HTTP endpoints:
Tools
Legal (bid.scope/legal):
scope_dispatch_matter- send a matter to professionals and get their rate-card pricesscope_briefing- daily briefing across all open mattersscope_get_matter,scope_list_matters,scope_list_categories,scope_list_vendors,scope_list_rosterscope_set_vendor_tier,scope_remove_from_roster,scope_award_matterscope_roster_audit,scope_vendor_health,scope_spend_rollup,scope_credential_alertsswp_clarify,swp_accept,swp_reject,swp_session_status- Scope Work Protocol tools for existing negotiation sessions (the session-opening tools were retired at the rate-card cutover and are no longer served)
Claims (bid.scope/claims): IME routing, surveillance coordination, defense medical record review, life-care planning, voc rehab routing, roster audit, credential alerts.
AEC (bid.scope/aec): subcontractor dispatch, prequalification, bonding capacity, safety record pulls, AEC vendor listing.
Environment variables
SCOPE_API_BASE- override the default API base. Defaults tohttps://scope.bid.SCOPE_API_TOKEN- bearer token for write operations.SCOPE_ORG_SLUG- pin reads and writes to a specific buyer organization. Useful for multi-tenant deployments.
Plugin marketplace alternative
If you want bundled slash commands and skills along with the MCP server registration, install the plugin marketplace instead:
/plugin marketplace add github.com/scope-bid/scope-platform
/plugin install scope-legal
Evals
Five canonical scenarios protect against regressions in MCP tool behavior.
Run locally against mocks:
npm run eval
Run against the live Anthropic API with MCP tools attached:
npm run eval:live
Add a new scenario any time a tool or skill ships that creates a new failure mode. Fixtures live in tests/evals/fixtures/, mocked tool responses in tests/evals/mocks/, runner in tests/evals/runner.ts. CI runs the mocked harness on every PR via .github/workflows/eval.yml.
Version bumps
When updating package.json version in any package directory, also update the matching server.json version. CI auto-syncs as a safety net but committed files should stay aligned for repo hygiene and local-publish testing.
Company
Scope Bid, Inc. is a Delaware C-corp founded May 2026 by Jack Gillen. San Diego, CA. Patent pending.
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