MCP for CanLII: Canadian case law and legislation metadata (federal, provincial, territorial).
Most database access work still happens through a UI a human drives. CanLII MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. MCP for CanLII: Canadian case law and legislation metadata (federal, provincial, territorial).
The hosted instance is public. No Vaquill token is required. Provide your own CanLII key one of two ways:
Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
The server publishes 7 tools. What each one is for:
list_case_databases — List all courts and tribunals in the CanLII collectionlist_cases — Browse decisions from a specific court/tribunal databaseget_case — Get metadata for a specific case (title, citation, date, keywords)get_case_citations — Get cases cited by a case, cases citing it, or legislation it referenceslist_legislation_databases — List all statute and regulation databaseslist_legislation — Browse statutes or regulations from a specific databaseget_legislation — Get metadata for a specific piece of legislationConfiguration is passed through the environment: CANLII_API, YOUR_CANLII_API_KEY, MCP_AUTH_TOKEN. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Plenty of database access servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. CanLII's toolset — list_case_databases, list_cases, get_case and 4 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by Vaquill-AI; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| list_case_databases | List all courts and tribunals in the CanLII collection |
| list_cases | Browse decisions from a specific court/tribunal database |
| get_case | Get metadata for a specific case (title, citation, date, keywords) |
| get_case_citations | Get cases cited by a case, cases citing it, or legislation it references |
| list_legislation_databases | List all statute and regulation databases |
| list_legislation | Browse statutes or regulations from a specific database |
| get_legislation | Get metadata for a specific piece of legislation |
{
"mcpServers": {
"canlii": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@tomilashy/canlii-mcp"],
"env": {
"CANLII_API": "your_api_key"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| CANLII_API | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| YOUR_CANLII_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| MCP_AUTH_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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