Spain Legal by Legal Fournier

Spain Legal by Legal Fournier

Public MCP and REST screening service for Spanish immigration, residence, nationality, tax, property and business questions. Screening is preliminary; filing-sensitive or incomplete cases require a qualified review.

• MCP: https://legalfournier.com/mcp/spain-legal
• REST OpenAPI: https://legalfournier.com/.well-known/openapi/spain-legal-api.json
• Server card: https://legalfournier.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
• Readiness: https://legalfournier.com/mcp/spain-legal/readyz

Protocol and interactive clients

Version 0.4.0 serves MCP 2026-07-28 and retains support for the 2025-era initialization handshake over HTTP and stdio. Modern clients can call server/discover directly. Public tool/resource catalogs use explicit five-minute cache hints; case-specific responses are not shared-cacheable.

Clients supporting MCP Apps can browse articles and videos inside the chat and check digital-nomad income against the existing server calculator. The same tools still return text and structured data to other clients. Videos load only after a click, with a YouTube link available when a host blocks embeds. The official Skills extension exposes five public legal workflows with integrity manifests; existing resource URIs remain available.

See protocol compatibility, Apps, and Skills.

Tools

search and fetch retrieve published articles, verified embedded-video metadata, and canonical guidance. Results include citation URLs and source dates. The hourly publisher reads public WordPress content; the MCP holds no WordPress or Metricool credentials. Retrieved text is untrusted reference material, never instructions to an agent. Transcripts are not invented. See content synchronization.

Screening tools: find_legal_fournier_tool, run_legal_fournier_tool, get_visa_options, check_beckham_eligibility, get_residency_path, explain_nie_process, compare_tax_regimes, and route_to_legal_fournier_help. Use explicit income currency/period/family counts and property location/type. Missing eligibility evidence returns a review requirement. See legal maintenance and supported calculations.

get_paid_consultation_options and get_paid_call_availability are read-only. create_legal_fournier_contact_request is consequential: it requires explicit user consent and submits a signed, idempotent contact request. A timeout does not mean failure; keep the returned operation key when retrying. Never send passport numbers, identity documents or unrelated sensitive information.

Development

Use Node 22.23.3 (see .nvmrc).

npm ci --ignore-scripts
npm run check
python3 -m unittest discover -s scripts -p 'test_*.py'
php -n ops/test-wordpress-idempotency.php
npm audit --omit=dev
npm run discovery:generate

Start HTTP with npm start, or stdio with npm run start:stdio. HTTP defaults to 127.0.0.1:3137/mcp/spain-legal. Both transports use the same input/output schemas. REST returns structured errors and appropriate status codes; native MCP returns protocol-compatible tool errors.

Custom HTTP integrations should send a descriptive User-Agent. The site's browser-integrity filter rejects generic Python-urllib requests; the standard Node and Python HTTPX/MCP client signatures pass. The provided smoke checker identifies itself explicitly.

Operations

Production runs as lf-spainlegal with a root-owned release and a separate publisher user. Preserve the service sandbox and WordPress isolation. Service and proxy examples are in ops/; deploy them with backups and syntax checks. The MCP uses LF_CONTENT_INDEX_PATH for its read-only content snapshot and LF_MCP_TELEMETRY_DIR for bounded operational telemetry. Liveness is /healthz; readiness adds index freshness and telemetry health. Missing content fails readiness; stale content remains explicitly marked.

Only loopback Nginx may supply X-LF-Verified-Client-IP. The supplied proxy configuration validates Cloudflare peers before deriving that header. Do not trust arbitrary forwarded headers. Default application limits are 32 concurrent requests and 120 requests per minute per verified client IP.

Other configuration: LF_MCP_HOST, LF_MCP_PORT, LF_MCP_PATH, LF_MCP_PUBLIC_URL, LF_MCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS, LF_MCP_ALLOWED_ORIGINS, LF_SITE_BASE_URL, LF_CONTACT_URL, LF_HOMEPAGE_URL, LF_MCP_TELEMETRY_ENABLED, LF_AGENT_COMMERCE_BASE_URL, LF_AGENT_LEAD_ENDPOINT, and LF_AGENT_LEAD_SECRET. Keep the signing secret in the private service environment; never commit it.

Release provenance

Version 0.3.0 starts from the internal TypeScript source that rebuilt byte for byte to production 0.2.17, except its version constant. This recovers the source changes missing from the old public 0.2.5 repository. Generated discovery schemas are rebuilt from the same native tool definitions used at runtime.

Version 0.4.0 adds the current MCP protocol, backward compatibility, browser origin validation, Apps and the official Skills extension. After deployment, publish the matching server.json to the MCP Registry using the existing domain key, then verify the public release:

python3 scripts/smoke-readonly.py --base https://legalfournier.com --public-metadata --registry

The daily Public MCP release verification workflow runs separate jobs for the live service and the external Registry listing. Registry checks use its direct latest-version lookup, with bounded retries for transient read failures; version or endpoint mismatches still fail. Registry publishing credentials remain outside the application and CI.