Law7 MCP - Up-to-date Legal Documents For AI Assistants

Current state and vocabulary. What this repository actually contains today, measured against the live database, is in docs/SCOPE.md; the words the project uses in a specific sense are in docs/GLOSSARY.md. Numbers elsewhere in this README are updated by re-measuring, and SCOPE.md wins if they disagree.

Without Law7

AI assistants rely on outdated training data for laws:

• LLMs use training data from years ago
• Hallucinated legal articles that don't exist
• Generic answers without specific legal citations
• Unable to track legal changes or amendments

With Law7

Law7 MCP pulls up-to-date, version-specific legal documents directly from official government sources and places them into your AI conversation.

Ask questions like:

What are the notice periods for terminating an employment contract in Russia?

What changes were made to the Russian Labor Code in 2025?

Law7 fetches current legal documents right into your AI's context. No tab-switching, no hallucinated articles, no outdated legal information.

Legal Disclaimer

IMPORTANT: This project provides text information from open sources only. See DISCLAIMER.md for full details.

• NOT for official use in court or government bodies
• NO guarantee of accuracy, completeness, or timeliness
• Always consult qualified lawyers for legal matters
• AGPL-3.0 licensed - modifications must be shared

Installation

Claude Desktop

# Build the server
npm run build

# Add to Claude Desktop
claude mcp add law7 --node \path\to\folder\law7\dist\index.js

Step 1: Build and Test the Server

npm run build
npm start

Step 2: Add to Claude Desktop

Option A - Via config file (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "law7": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/folder/law7/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {}
    }
  }
}

Important: The mcpServers is an object, not an array. Each server is a key with command and args properties.

Step 3: Test with Claude Desktop

Once added, the law7 MCP server appears in your chat with these tools:

• list-countries - List available countries
• get-statistics - Get database statistics
• query-laws - Search legal documents by text
• get-law - Get specific document by eo_number

Example query:

Can you search for documents about "трудовой договор" in Russia and show me the results?

Important Tips

Add a Rule

To automatically invoke Law7 for legal questions, add a rule to your CLAUDE.md file:

Always use Law7 MCP when I need legal information, document lookup, or legal analysis without me having to explicitly ask.

Specify Country

Currently only Russia is supported, but you can specify for clarity:

What are the labor laws in Russia regarding overtime?

Query Historical Versions

Ask for specific dates to get historical legal versions:

What was the Russian Labor Code article 80 text on January 1, 2024?

Available Tools

Law7 MCP provides the following 13 tools that AI assistants can use (as of the 2026-02-11 snapshot, measured 2026-09-14):

Architecture

This project uses a hybrid architecture with two separate components:

• Data Pipeline (Python): Crawls, parses, and indexes legal documents into local database
• MCP Server (TypeScript): Queries the local database and serves results to AI assistants

Python Pipeline → PostgreSQL + Qdrant → TypeScript MCP Server → AI

Components

Phase 1: Current Implementation (Russia)

Status: Operational

As of the 2026-02-11 snapshot (measured 2026-09-14):

• Documents: 1,136,605 Russian legal documents (2019-2026)
• Content Coverage: 47,871 documents with full text (4.2%)
• Code Articles: 6,232 articles across 22 of 23 consolidated legal codes
• Embeddings: 265 semantic vectors (test data - full embeddings pending)
• Database Backup: Download (218 MB) - SHA256: 70a1d8fc6b27b67ad7f12f03f017d02b5f68a0c895447159039800965895f8b2
• Sources:
  • pravo.gov.ru - Official Russian legal publication portal (primary)
  • kremlin.ru - Presidential decrees, Constitution
  • government.ru - Government resolutions, procedure codes
• Codes: 22 of 23 consolidated Russian legal codes imported:
  • Constitution (KONST_RF)
  • Civil Code (4 parts: GK_RF, GK_RF_2/3/4)
  • Criminal Code (UK_RF)
  • Labor Code (TK_RF)
  • Tax Code (2 parts: NK_RF, NK_RF_2)
  • Family, Housing, Land codes (SK_RF, ZhK_RF, ZK_RF)
  • Administrative Code (KoAP_RF)
  • Procedure Codes (GPK_RF, APK_RF, UPK_RF)
  • Budget, Urban Planning, Criminal Executive codes (BK_RF, GRK_RF, UIK_RF)
  • Environmental codes (VZK_RF - Air, VDK_RF - Water, LK_RF - Forest)
  • Pending: Administrative Procedure Code (KAS_RF) - not yet imported

Quick Start Pipeline:

1. Import Base Codes (~6 hours) - 22 of 23 core legal codes (6,232 articles) - Civil, Labor, Criminal, etc.
2. Document Sync (partial: ~6h, full: 100+h) - Amendment documents from official sources (optional)
3. Content + Embeddings (~2-3 hours) - Extract text and generate vectors (optional)

For most users: Step 1 gives you the essential legal codes. Steps 2-3 add amendment coverage.

See docs/DATA_PIPELINE.md for complete data pipeline documentation.

Phase 2: Future Vision (Global)

Status: Planned - See docs/VISION.md

• Multi-country support
• Decentralized data distribution (IPFS, libp2p)
• Community verification system
• Country adapter pattern for adding new jurisdictions
• Delta updates and change tracking

Quick Start (Development)

Note: Default ports are PostgreSQL 5433, Qdrant 6333 (to avoid conflicts with other projects). Redis was removed 2026-09-14; add back when a cache is actually implemented.

Option A: Restore from Backup (Recommended - ~5 minutes)

Skip the data sync and use the pre-built database:

# 1. Download backup (218 MB)
#    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DPLpFpuwUZbLZEGo2TxnCAcLRdb2V1aD/view?usp=sharing

# 2. Start Docker services
cd docker
docker-compose up -d

# 3. Restore backup (place .tar.gz in docker/backups/ directory)
./restore.sh law7_backup_20260211_014519

# 4. Start MCP server
npm install && npm run build && npm start

Option B: Fresh Installation (from official sources)

1. Start Docker Services

cd docker
docker-compose up -d

2. Run Initial Data Sync (Python)

# Using uv
uv run python scripts/sync/initial_sync.py

3. Start MCP Server (TypeScript)

npm install
npm run build
npm start

4. Test with MCP Inspector

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector node dist/index.js

Dependencies

TypeScript (MCP Server)

• @modelcontextprotocol/sdk - MCP protocol
• pg - PostgreSQL client
• @qdrant/js-client-rest - Qdrant vector DB client

Python (Data Pipeline)

• pandas - Data processing
• sqlalchemy - Database ORM
• beautifulsoup4 - HTML parsing
• pdfplumber - PDF text extraction
• sentence-transformers - Embeddings (multilingual models)
• qdrant-client - Vector DB client
• torch - PyTorch with CUDA support (for GPU acceleration)

Hardware Requirements for GPU Acceleration:

• NVIDIA GPU with CUDA support (tested on RTX 3060 12GB)
• CUDA 12.x compatible drivers

More Documentation

• DATA_PIPELINE.md - Complete data pipeline guide
• VISION.md - Future global architecture
• DISCLAIMER.md - Legal disclaimer
• CONTRIBUTING.md - Development guidelines

License

AGPL-3.0 with an additional permission under section 7 - see LICENSE for the full license text and LICENSE-EXCEPTION.md for the additional permission (linking exception).

This means:

• Source code is freely available
• Any modifications must be shared under the same license
• If you run a modified version on a server and provide services to users, you must make the source code available to those users