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Virginia Code

Virginia Code

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pipeworx.ioLegal & Government0Updated 5w ago

About Virginia Code

Virginia Code MCP provides citation-based access to Virginia statutes for people who need to consult state law. It uses the official legislature site, requires no API key, and distinguishes missing citations from matches.

Key features

  1. 01Retrieve statutes by citation
  2. 02Use official state legislature data
  3. 03No API key required
  4. 04Distinguish missing citations from matches

Use cases

  1. 01Find a specific state statute
  2. 02Check whether a legal citation exists

MCP support

It exposes Virginia Code citation lookup tools to MCP clients. It can connect through the Pipeworx gateway or run locally as a stdio MCP server.

Configuration

Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.

Endpointhttps://gateway.pipeworx.io/virginia-code/mcp
Copy install command
Claude CodeTerminal
Cursor.cursor/mcp.json
VS Code.vscode/mcp.json
Claude Desktopclaude_desktop_config.json
Windsurf~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

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 README

Code of Virginia

Code of Virginia by citation. Keyless.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1684+ live data sources.

See docs/state-law-probe.md for how this source was verified — every state pack confirms a MISS is distinguishable from a HIT before shipping, because several state sites answer HTTP 200 for statutes that do not exist.

Data source

Official state legislature site. Code of Virginia statutes are public record.

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "virginia-code": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/virginia-code/mcp"
    }
  }
}
What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/virginia-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 1684+ 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/va_code_section \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"section":"18.2-32"}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/va_code_section. 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": {
    "virginia-code": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-virginia-code"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-virginia-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 Virginia Code data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

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License

MIT

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