Midwest Legal Docs MCP Server

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Midwest Legal Docs is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. Last commit 11 Oct 2026.

Legal-form catalog, search, and checkout for AI agents. Document prep only; not a law firm.

Uptime history 24 hours of history · worst hour 67%

24 hours agonow

97.8%

Uptime 24h

88 of 90 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

353 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 11 Oct 2026

Midwest Legal Docs does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 97.8% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add midwest-legal-docs --transport http https://midwest-legal-docs-mcp.onrender.com/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "midwest-legal-docs": {
      "url": "https://midwest-legal-docs-mcp.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.midwest-legal-docs]
url = "https://midwest-legal-docs-mcp.onrender.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "midwest-legal-docs": {
      "url": "https://midwest-legal-docs-mcp.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "midwest-legal-docs": {
      "url": "https://midwest-legal-docs-mcp.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, but it did not say what kind of credentials it expects.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://midwest-legal-docs-mcp.onrender.com/mcp	streamable-http	needs auth	344 ms	13 min ago

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Midwest Legal Docs — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for Midwest Legal Docs?

The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 97.8% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.

Is Midwest Legal Docs working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 88 of 90 checks got a reply (97.8%), average response time 353 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Midwest Legal Docs?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You will need your own credentials: it refuses anonymous clients.

Does Midwest Legal Docs need an API key?

Yes. Every time we knock, Midwest Legal Docs answers with an authorization challenge instead of its tool list — that is how we know it is running and gated rather than broken. Bring your own credentials and it will talk.

How fast is Midwest Legal Docs?

It answers our handshake in 353 ms on average, which is faster than 39% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Midwest Legal Docs open source?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.