About Dike
Dike is a remote legal-search MCP server for research on primary legal sources from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE. Its tools support grounded answers, citation checks, and tracing links between legal documents.
Key features
- 01Hybrid legal-source search
- 02Grounded question answering
- 03Arabic citation parsing and verification
- 04Citation graph traversal
Use cases
- 01Research a legal question
- 02Compare sources on a legal topic
- 03Verify an Arabic citation
- 04Check amendments or repeals
MCP support
Dike's remote MCP server exposes search, grounded reasoning, citation resolution, and legal-document graph traversal over Saudi, Egyptian, and Emirati primary sources. It is accessed through the Claude Code plugin or supported Claude connectors.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://api.dike.it.com/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http fr3on-dike https://api.dike.it.com/mcp{"mcpServers":{"fr3on-dike":{"type":"http","url":"https://api.dike.it.com/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"fr3on-dike":{"type":"http","url":"https://api.dike.it.com/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"fr3on-dike":{"type":"http","url":"https://api.dike.it.com/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"fr3on-dike":{"serverUrl":"https://api.dike.it.com/mcp"}}}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.
https://api.dike.it.com/mcpAuth requiredTools
Details
From the project READMEdike-legal-search
Claude Code plugin bundling Dike's remote MCP server: grounded search, reasoning, citation resolution, and citation-graph traversal over Saudi, Egyptian, and Emirati primary legal sources.
Requires
A Dike API key. Get one at https://dike.it.com/developers/ (self-serve signup is currently closed while in testing; request a key manually until it reopens, see https://dike.it.com/auth.md).
Setup
export DIKE_API_KEY=your-key-here
Then, inside Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add dikeai/plugins
/plugin install dike-legal-search@dike-plugins
If you're connecting from Claude.ai or Claude Desktop's Connectors panel
instead of Claude Code, click "Connect" on the dike connector, it uses
OAuth against your existing Dike account rather than a pasted API key.
Commands
/dike-research— the full grounded workflow: search, reason, graph audit for amendments/repeals, and citation verification, in that order. Use this for an actual legal question./dike-search— browse and compare sources for a topic without answering a question./dike-cite— parse and verify a specific citation string against the corpus.
Tools
dike_search— hybrid semantic + lexical search over the corpusdike_reason— grounded Q&A; every citation is verified against retrieved documents before being returned, unresolved references are dropped, never guesseddike_cite— parse and resolve an Arabic citation string to a documentdike_graph_traverse— find documents that cite, amend, repeal, implement, or interpret a given document
Same rate limits as the REST API: 60 requests/minute default, 10/minute for
dike_reason.
What this is not
This bundles Dike's existing production MCP server (api.dike.it.com/mcp),
it does not run anything locally. There's no separate binary or package to
install beyond this plugin's .mcp.json pointer.
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