About Pennsylvania Code
Pennsylvania Code is an MCP server for retrieving Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes by citation. It resolves section numbers into the chapter-and-section format used by the source, for legal research involving state statutes.
Key features
- 01Retrieve statutes by title and section
- 02Resolve compact section citations to source paths
- 03Return 404 for nonexistent statutes
Use cases
- 01Look up a Pennsylvania statute by citation
- 02Convert a four-digit section number for retrieval
- 03Check whether a cited statute exists
MCP support
Exposes Pennsylvania statute retrieval to MCP clients. It is available through the Pipeworx gateway or as a local stdio MCP server.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pennsylvania-code/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http pipeworx-io-pennsylvania-code https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pennsylvania-code/mcp{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-pennsylvania-code":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pennsylvania-code/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"pipeworx-io-pennsylvania-code":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pennsylvania-code/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-pennsylvania-code":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pennsylvania-code/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-pennsylvania-code":{"serverUrl":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pennsylvania-code/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.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEPennsylvania Code — Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes by citation
Keyless. 18 Pa.C.S. 2502 is murder; 75 Pa.C.S. 3802 is DUI.
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1683+ live data sources.
The citation hides a chapter
A four-digit PA section number is really chapter + section, and the URL needs
both, zero-padded: 2502 becomes 00.025.002. Nobody types that, which is why
this is a resolver.
Host note
The modern palegis.us front end renders statutes client-side and returns a
shell. The older legis.state.pa.us path still serves real HTML and is the one
used here.
Miss behaviour
Honest 404 — unlike several state sources, which answer 200 for statutes that do not exist.
Data source
Pennsylvania General Assembly. Pennsylvania statutes are public record.
Quick Start
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"pennsylvania-code": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pennsylvania-code/mcp"
}
}
}
What this endpoint actually serves
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pennsylvania-code/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1683+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
No MCP client? Call it over HTTP
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/pa_consolidated_statute \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"title":"18","section":"2502"}'
No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/pa_consolidated_statute. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.
Standalone (no gateway account)
This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pennsylvania-code": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-pennsylvania-code"]
}
}
}
Or run it directly to confirm it starts:
npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-pennsylvania-code
It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call
for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway
connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.
Using with ask_pipeworx
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Pennsylvania Code data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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License
MIT
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