Portuguese legislation via MCP — full-text search across statutes and provisions
Portuguese legislation via MCP — full-text search across statutes and provisions. That is what the portuguese mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
First request opens an OAuth signup flow (setup details: ansvar.eu/docs/quickstart). After signup, your client is bound to your account; tier (free / premium / team / company) determines fan-out, quota, and which downstream MCPs are reachable.
We build AI-accelerated compliance and legal research tools for the European market. This MCP server started as our internal reference tool for Portuguese law -- turns out everyone building compliance tools for the Iberian and Lusophone market has the same research frustrations.
The server publishes 14 tools. What each one is for:
search_legislation — FTS5 search on 81,012 provisions with BM25 rankingget_provision — Retrieve specific provision by lei/decreto-lei identifier + artigovalidate_citation — Validate citation against database (zero-hallucination check)build_legal_stance — Aggregate citations from statutes and preparatory worksformat_citation — Format citations per Portuguese conventions (full/short/pinpoint)check_currency — Check if statute is in force, amended, or repealedlist_sources — List all available statutes with metadata and data provenanceabout — Server info, capabilities, dataset statistics, and coverage summaryget_eu_basis — Get EU directives/regulations for Portuguese statuteget_portuguese_implementations — Find Portuguese laws implementing EU actsearch_eu_implementations — Search EU documents with Portuguese implementation countsget_provision_eu_basis — Get EU law references for specific provision@anthropic/mcp-inspector on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
This sits in the database access group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Portuguese's toolset — search_legislation, get_provision, validate_citation and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by eu.ansvar; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_legislation | FTS5 search on 81,012 provisions with BM25 ranking |
| get_provision | Retrieve specific provision by lei/decreto-lei identifier + artigo |
| validate_citation | Validate citation against database (zero-hallucination check) |
| build_legal_stance | Aggregate citations from statutes and preparatory works |
| format_citation | Format citations per Portuguese conventions (full/short/pinpoint) |
| check_currency | Check if statute is in force, amended, or repealed |
| list_sources | List all available statutes with metadata and data provenance |
| about | Server info, capabilities, dataset statistics, and coverage summary |
| get_eu_basis | Get EU directives/regulations for Portuguese statute |
| get_portuguese_implementations | Find Portuguese laws implementing EU act |
| search_eu_implementations | Search EU documents with Portuguese implementation counts |
| get_provision_eu_basis | Get EU law references for specific provision |
| validate_eu_compliance | Check implementation status (requires EU MCP) |
| Connect | First request opens an OAuth signup flow (setup details: [ansvar.eu/docs/quickstart](https://ansvar.eu/docs/quickstart)). After signup, your client is bound to your account; tier (free / premium / team / company) determi |
{
"mcpServers": {
"portuguese-law": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@anthropic/mcp-inspector"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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