NYS Open Legislation MCP Server

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NYS Open Legislation runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 46 installs a week from npm. Last commit 9 Nov 2026.

NY State bills, laws, members, committees, calendars and transcripts from NYS Open Legislation

Installs per day peak 206 · avg 19 · -33% w/w

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npm · @betanyc/nys-openlegislation-mcp

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0 open issues

9 Nov 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

MIT

License

JavaScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check NYS Open Legislation every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add nys-openlegislation-mcp -- npx -y @betanyc/nys-openlegislation-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nys-openlegislation-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@betanyc/nys-openlegislation-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.nys-openlegislation-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@betanyc/nys-openlegislation-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nys-openlegislation-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@betanyc/nys-openlegislation-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "nys-openlegislation-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@betanyc/nys-openlegislation-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: NYS_LEGISLATION_API_KEY (Free NYS Open Legislation API key, needed for live data. Optional only if a local corpus exists), NYS_CORPUS_DB (Path to the optional local corpus database. Defaults to data/corpus.db in the package).

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NYS Open Legislation — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for NYS Open Legislation?

NYS Open Legislation runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package @betanyc/nys-openlegislation-mcp was installed 46 times last week.

How do I connect NYS Open Legislation?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @betanyc/nys-openlegislation-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use NYS Open Legislation?

The npm package @betanyc/nys-openlegislation-mcp was installed 46 times in the last week. Week over week that is -33%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is NYS Open Legislation open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 5 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.