About Brazilian Law Research MCP Server
The Brazilian Law Research MCP server lets agents search legal precedents from official Brazilian court sources. It is intended for lawyers and law students, and it relies on web scraping of official sites.
Key features
- 01Search STJ legal precedents
- 02Search TST legal precedents
- 03Search STF legal precedents
Use cases
- 01Lawyers looking up precedents from Brazilian high courts
- 02Law students researching labor court decisions
- 03Agent-driven first-pass searches of Brazilian case law
MCP support
The server runs as an MCP server and exposes StjLegalPrecedentsRequest, TstLegalPrecedentsRequest and StfLegalPrecedentsRequest tools to MCP clients.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
We haven’t collected a package or remote endpoint for this server. Follow the instructions in the project README.
Tools
Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.
Details
From the project READMEBrazilian Law Research MCP Server
A MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for agent-driven research on Brazilian law using official sources.
Foreword
This server empowers models with scraping capacities, thus making research easier to anyone legitimately interested in Brazilian legal matters.
This facility comes with a price: the risk of overloading the official sources' servers if misused. Please be sure to keep the load on the sources to a reasonable amount.
Requirements
- git
- uv (recommended) or Python >= 3.12
- Google Chrome
How to use
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/pdmtt/brlaw_mcp_server.git
- Install the dependencies
uv run patchright install
- Setup your MCP client (e.g. Claude Desktop):
{
"mcpServers": {
"brlaw_mcp_server": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/<path>/brlaw_mcp_server",
"run",
"serve"
]
}
}
}
Available Tools
StjLegalPrecedentsRequest: Research legal precedents made by the National High Court of Brazil (STJ) that meet the specified criteria.TstLegalPrecedentsRequest: Research legal precedents made by the National High Labor Court of Brazil (TST) that meet the specified criteria.StfLegalPrecedentsRequest: Research legal precedents made by the Supreme Court (STF) that meet the specified criteria.
Development
Tooling
The project uses:
- Ruff for linting and formatting.
- BasedPyright for type checking.
- Pytest for testing.
Language
Resources, tools and prompts related stuff must be written in Portuguese, because this project aims to be used by non-dev folks, such as lawyers and law students.
Technical legal vocabulary is highly dependent on a country's legal tradition and translating it is no trivial task.
Development related stuff should stick to English as conventional, such as source code.
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
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