CanLII
Wire your coding agent to search Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial case law and legislation on CanLII while scoping legal or compliance-heavy products.
Overview
CanLII MCP is a MCP server for the Idea phase that lets agents query Canadian case law and legislation metadata from CanLII across federal, provincial, and territorial coverage.
What is this MCP server?
- Streamable HTTP MCP at canlii-mcp.vaquill.ai with Bearer plus X-CanLII-Token headers
- Federal, provincial, and territorial Canadian case law and legislation metadata via CanLII
- Server does not persist your CanLII API key; apply for a key at canlii.org feedback
- Hosted remote endpoint version 0.1.0 from Vaquill-AI/canlii-mcp on GitHub
- MCP integration for Claude Code–style agents, not a standalone legal brief generator
- Remote MCP version 0.1.0
- Two required secret headers: Authorization Bearer and X-CanLII-Token
- Coverage: federal, provincial, and territorial Canadian law metadata
Community signal: 2 GitHub stars.
What problem does it solve?
Manually hunting Canadian statutes and cases in a browser breaks agent workflows when you need citable metadata while scoping a product or feature.
Who is it for?
Solo builders validating Canadian compliance, legal-tech MVPs, or policy-heavy SaaS who already have or can obtain a CanLII API key.
Skip if: Builders who only need US law, want offline-only research with no hosted MCP, or expect turnkey legal advice without human review.
What do I get? / Deliverables
After you add the remote MCP and keys, your agent can pull structured CanLII metadata into plans, specs, and research notes without leaving the editor.
- Agent-callable CanLII case and legislation metadata results in chat
- Research-backed notes on Canadian legal constraints for your spec
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Journey fit
Canadian legal metadata belongs on the earliest journey shelf where solo builders research constraints and precedent before committing to build. Research subphase covers discovery of domain facts—here, authoritative CanLII case and statute references—not implementation wiring.
How it compares
Jurisdiction-specific CanLII MCP integration, not a US CourtListener connector or a general web-search skill.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is CanLII MCP for?
Indie developers and agent users who need Canadian primary-law metadata inside Claude Code, Cursor, or similar MCP clients during product research.
When should I use CanLII MCP?
Use it in the idea or validate phase when scope depends on real Canadian cases or legislation, before you implement compliance copy or data models.
How do I add CanLII MCP to my agent?
Register the streamable-http remote https://canlii-mcp.vaquill.ai/mcp with Authorization Bearer and X-CanLII-Token set to your CanLII API key per server.schema.json.