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Corpus Law MCP Server

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Corpus Law is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 11 tools.

Search and cite US law from official sources, then form an LLC or nonprofit with free agent tools.

Uptime history 78 days of history · worst day 7%
78 days agonow
6.5%
Uptime 24h
6 of 92 checks
11
Tools
read from the server
539 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 39

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 25 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

6 Nov 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for formation.checkout, formation.handoff
2 Nov a tool appeared formation.status
2 Nov a tool changed the parameters it asks for law.search
28 Oct 4 tool descriptions were rewritten formation.checkout, formation.handoff, formation.payment_status and 1 more
28 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for formation.lookup_naics
21 Oct a tool description was rewritten formation.compare
18 Oct 4 tools changed the parameters they ask for5 times that day account.status, formation.checkout, formation.compare and 1 more
18 Oct a tool description was rewritten formation.checkout
17 Oct 10 tool descriptions were rewritten account.status, formation.checkout, formation.compare and 7 more
17 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for law.search
and 13 more, back to 25 August 2026

Corpus Law does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 20.4% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add corpus-legal --transport http https://corpuslaw.us/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://corpuslaw.us/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.corpus-legal]
url = "https://corpuslaw.us/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "corpus-legal": {
      "url": "https://corpuslaw.us/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "corpus-legal": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://corpuslaw.us/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 11

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

formation
formation.checkout
Creates the founder's LLC or nonprofit formation order and a USDC (Solana) payment request — no API key, no Corpus sign-in. Payment is USDC on Solana ONLY. The first call takes the complete draft, the founder's contactEmail, an idempotencyKey (the same order is returned on retry), and consent { version, registeredAgentAcknowledgements: true }, which records that the founder accepted the registered-agent acknowledgements. A queue-lane order first returns a submission promise, accepted with a second call { orderId, trackingToken, acceptPromise: { termDays } }. The payment response includes a payPageUrl: an ordinary https link to a Corpus page with a QR code to scan with a phone camera, a button that opens a Solana wallet, and the address and exact amount for a manual send. The founder pays the exact amount from a self-custody wallet (never an exchange withdrawal; refunds go only to the sending wallet) and must click the confirmation link Corpus emails within 48 hours, or the order is refunded. Nothing is filed before that confirmation, and then Corpus's human review, unless the founder chose to skip review on an expedited order (offered only where formation.requirements shows a SKIP REVIEW line). The tax-ID add-on is not sold here. Free; does not consume credits.
formation.compare
Compares LLC formation providers on price, recurring costs, registered-agent renewals, and machine/agent capabilities, from a dated dataset of 19 LLC services + 1 adjacent verified against primary sources. Corpus is one of the compared providers and is scored with the same rubric, including its own gaps; the response says so. Free; does not consume credits.
formation.handoff
Validates an LLC or nonprofit formation draft (people, address, management, EIN answers, state-specific answers) and returns exactly what is still missing. A complete draft also returns a prefilled corpuslaw.us link that opens the formation agent with every detail loaded, where the founder reviews, signs in, and pays. Free; does not consume credits.
formation.lookup_naics
Returns candidate NAICS industry codes (typically 2–6) for a plain-English business description. A code is required for every LLC, and for nonprofits in AK, CT, LA, MS, TN, WV. Free; does not consume credits.
formation.payment_status
Reports the USDC payment state of an LLC or nonprofit formation order created by formation.checkout: awaiting, paid, expired, underpaid or held, plus whether the founder has confirmed by email (required within 48 hours of payment). Reading the chain also records a payment that just arrived. Free; does not consume credits.
formation.requirements
Returns the intake checklist for forming an LLC (limited liability company) or nonprofit corporation in one US state: every required field, that state's specific questions, live all-in pricing including the state filing fee, and the optional EIN add-on with its price when available. Free; does not consume credits.
formation.status
Reports where an LLC or nonprofit formation order is, from its orderId and trackingToken (returned when an agent checks the order out, and carried in the founder's order-tracking link): its phase (awaiting payment, awaiting the founder's emailed confirmation, in Corpus's review, filing, submitted to the state, accepted by the state, completed), a dated milestone list, the state's confirmation number once the filing is submitted, and the certificate URL once it exists. filingSubmitted is the only field that means the state has the filing. Read-only; no API key; free, does not consume credits.
law
law.get_node
Returns the full official text, citation, and hierarchy of one legal provision, by its node id (the UUID in search results).
law.list_coverage
Lists the covered jurisdictions (federal, state, and municipal) with per-jurisdiction provision counts, searchable-chunk counts, GIS status, and a placeholder flag.
law.search
Searches US federal, state, and municipal law by topic or keyword (legality, permits, zoning, licensing, compliance, filing requirements). Returns ranked provisions with verbatim citations, headings, snippets, and node ids. `jurisdiction` limits results to one state, federal law, or a city.
account
account.status
Reports the credit balance, tier, rate limits, and upgrade options for the API key on this connection, or the free-tier allowance and the key URL for an anonymous caller. Free — this call does not consume a credit. Also mints or returns a referral code; `referral_code` on later calls keeps the same referral identity.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://corpuslaw.us/api/mcp streamable-http answering 81 ms 1 min ago

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Corpus Law — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Corpus Law do?
It exposes 11 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: account.status, formation.checkout, formation.compare, formation.handoff, formation.lookup_naics, formation.payment_status and 5 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
What is Corpus Law mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around formation and law. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Corpus Law working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 6 of 92 checks got a reply (6.5%), average response time 539 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Corpus Law as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Corpus Law?
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 is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Corpus Law need an API key?
No. Corpus Law completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 11 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Corpus Law?
It answers our handshake in 539 ms on average, which is faster than 21% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.