com.acquislaw/acquis

Official registry Government and legal

Verified EU law: verbatim, signed provisions with EUR-Lex links. Read-only, not legal advice.

Install

Add this to your client's MCP configuration (Claude Desktop: claude_desktop_config.json; Cursor: .cursor/mcp.json; VS Code and others use the same "mcpServers" shape).

Remote (streamable-http)
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http acquis 'https://api.acquislaw.com/mcp'
JSON configuration (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code)
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "acquis": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://api.acquislaw.com/mcp"
        }
    }
}

Documentation

From the project's README on GitHub, refreshed weekly. Links open on GitHub.

Contents
  1. Acquis — Verified EU Law for AI assistants
  2. Corpus
  3. Tools
  4. Install
  5. Example
  6. Not legal advice

Acquis — Verified EU Law for AI assistants

Acquis gives Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP-enabled assistant exact, verifiable access to EU digital regulation. Instead of paraphrasing from training data, your assistant quotes the verbatim provision of the current consolidation — with the full citation (act, article, paragraph, point), its in-force status, the consolidation date and a deep link to EUR-Lex, so you can check every claim yourself.

The verbatim legal text is rendered from a signed corpus — it is not written by the model. Every fragment is content-hashed and ed25519-signed at ingestion, and any citation can be cryptographically verified.

This repository documents the public MCP endpoint. The hosted service, its source code and its data products are proprietary and governed by the terms at acquislaw.com — only the contents of this repository are MIT-licensed (see LICENSE).

Corpus

The EU digital rulebook, all consolidated and updated by daily sweeps of the official EUR-Lex/CELLAR catalog (new consolidations, corrigenda, status changes):

ActCELEX
AI Act (applies from 2 August 2026 — Art. 113 staggers the rest)32024R1689
GDPR32016R0679
Digital Services Act (DSA)32022R2065
Digital Markets Act (DMA)32022R1925
NIS232022L2555
Data Act32023R2854
Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)32024R2847
DORA32022R2554
eIDAS 232024R1183
Product Liability Directive32024L2853
Data Governance Act32022R0868

EDPB guidelines are next. Need a corpus that isn't here? New corpora are a matter of hours — ask at <capy@acquislaw.com>.

Tools

Five read-only tools:

ToolWhat
search_eu_lawSemantic search over the corpus → ranked verbatim provisions with citations.
get_provisionExact lookup by legal anchor — act: "AI Act", article: "6", paragraph: "1", point: "a" (also annex, recital).
get_act_statusAn act's CELEX number(s), latest consolidation date, in-force info and coverage.
list_versionsEvery stored version of an article with validity windows ("what did it say before the amendment?").
verify_fragmentRecomputes the content hash and reports the ed25519 signing provenance of any returned citation.

Install

Acquis is a remote server. Authentication is OAuth 2.1 (an account is created in-flow, with a 7-day Pro trial, no card).

Claude (Desktop / claude.ai / Code)

Add a custom connector pointing at the remote URL:

https://api.acquislaw.com/mcp

In claude.ai → Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the URL and complete the sign-in screen.

Cursor, Cline, VS Code and other MCP clients (stdio via the shim)

Clients that speak stdio can reach the remote server through the mcp-remote adapter, which also carries the OAuth flow:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "acquis": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://api.acquislaw.com/mcp"]
    }
  }
}
Inspecting the tools without an account

/mcp is OAuth-protected, so an unauthenticated probe gets a 401 (that challenge is what starts the sign-in flow). To let any client or directory read the tool catalog without an account, there is a public introspection endpoint:

https://api.acquislaw.com/mcp/public

It advertises the same five tool definitions and returns no legal content — every call points you back at the real endpoint. Use it to inspect the server; use /mcp for answers.

Example

Prompt: "What does Article 6 of the AI Act say about high-risk classification? Then verify that citation."

get_provision(act: "AI Act", article: "6") returns the eight paragraphs of Article 6 verbatim, each with its EUR-Lex link; verify_fragment then recomputes the content hash and confirms the ed25519 signing provenance.

More in examples/.

Acquis returns official sources verbatim with citations. It is a retrieval layer with provenance — not legal advice. Built by Capybara Labs on HIVE, our verifiable knowledge engine.

Frequently asked questions

What is com.acquislaw/acquis?

Verified EU law: verbatim, signed provisions with EUR-Lex links. Read-only, not legal advice.

How do I install com.acquislaw/acquis?

It runs as a remote server. In Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http acquis 'https://api.acquislaw.com/mcp'. For other clients, paste the JSON configuration from this page into their MCP settings.

Does com.acquislaw/acquis need an API key?

Its registry entry lists no required key or secret. Some features may still need an account with the service it connects to.

Is com.acquislaw/acquis open source?

Yes. Its code is on GitHub under the MIT license.

Who maintains com.acquislaw/acquis?

It is published by capybarist. AI.tn lists it but does not maintain or endorse it.

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