Jawafdehi MCP Server

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing tools for integrating LLM workflows with Jawafdehi products, including Jawafdehi.org, Nepal Entity Service (NES), Nepal Government Modernization (NGM), and the likhit Markdown conversion tool.

Available MCP Tools

• Modular tool architecture for easy extension
• Unified document converter with smart auto-detection (Likhit + MarkItDown)
• Read-only access with query validation
• Timeout protection (default 15s)
• Comprehensive error handling

Jawafdehi.org

• search_jawafdehi_cases: Search published Jawafdehi accountability cases
• get_jawafdehi_case: Retrieve detailed case information
• create_jawafdehi_case: Create a draft Jawafdehi case
• patch_jawafdehi_case: Patch an existing case with RFC 6902 JSON Patch operations

Nepal Entity Service (NES)

• submit_nes_change: Submit NES queue changes through Jawafdehi API
• search_nes_entities: Search Nepal Entity Service for persons and organizations
• get_nes_entities: Retrieve complete entity profiles
• get_nes_entity_prefixes: Fetch valid NES entity prefixes for creation/classification
• get_nes_entity_prefix_schema: Fetch the JSON schema for a specific NES entity prefix
• get_nes_tags: Fetch all available entity tags

Nepal Government Modernization (NGM)

• ngm_query_judicial: Execute SELECT queries against NGM court and court case tables
• ngm_extract_case_data: Extract complete judicial case information to Markdown

Likhit and Document Conversion

• convert_to_markdown: Convert documents with smart auto-detection (Likhit for Nepal government PDFs, MarkItDown for Office documents/web pages/general PDFs, with automatic fallback)
• convert_date: Convert dates between AD and BS calendars

Architecture

The server uses a modular tool architecture:

src/jawafdehi_mcp/
├── server.py              # Main MCP server
└── tools/                 # Tool implementations
    ├── __init__.py        # Tool registry
    ├── base.py            # BaseTool abstract class
    ├── ngm_judicial.py    # NGM judicial query tool
    └── example_tool.py    # Example tool template

Adding New Tools

1. Create a new file in src/jawafdehi_mcp/tools/ (e.g., my_tool.py)
2. Subclass BaseTool and implement required methods:
   • name: Tool identifier
   • description: Tool description
   • input_schema: JSON schema for inputs
   • execute(): Tool execution logic
3. Import your tool in tools/__init__.py
4. Add an instance to the TOOLS list in server.py

See tools/example_tool.py for a template.

Installation

Install via PyPI (recommended):

uv tool install jawafdehi-mcp

If you want the latest unreleased changes, install from GitHub instead:

uv tool install git+https://github.com/NewNepal-org/jawafdehi-mcp.git

Configuration

Set the required environment variables:

export JAWAFDEHI_API_BASE_URL="https://portal.jawafdehi.org"
export JAWAFDEHI_API_TOKEN="your-jawafdehi-api-token"

To request a Jawafdehi API token, contact inquiry@jawafdehi.org or WhatsApp: +1 206-530-9098.

Usage

As MCP Server

Add to your MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jawafdehi": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["jawafdehi-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "JAWAFDEHI_API_BASE_URL": "https://portal.jawafdehi.org",
        "JAWAFDEHI_API_TOKEN": "your-jawafdehi-api-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Jawafdehi Case Drafting and Patching

Use create_jawafdehi_case to create draft cases and patch_jawafdehi_case to apply JSON Patch updates to existing cases by case_id.

Both tools require JAWAFDEHI_API_TOKEN.

NES Queue Submissions

The submit_nes_change tool sends authenticated POST requests to Jawafdehi API's NES queue endpoint. Supported action values are:

• ADD_NAME
• CREATE_ENTITY
• UPDATE_ENTITY

The tool uses JAWAFDEHI_API_BASE_URL for the API host and requires JAWAFDEHI_API_TOKEN for authentication.

NES Schema Discovery

Use get_nes_entity_prefixes to fetch the currently valid NES entity prefixes, and get_nes_entity_prefix_schema to fetch the JSON schema for one prefix such as person or organization/political_party. Prefixes containing slashes (e.g. organization/political_party) are automatically URL-encoded by the tool before being sent in the request path.

These tools read from NES_API_BASE_URL, which defaults to https://nes.newnepal.org.

Available Tables

The following NGM judicial tables are accessible through the Jawafdehi API proxy endpoint (/api/ngm/query_judicial):

• courts - Court master table (district, high, supreme, special courts)
• court_cases - Court case metadata and registration information
• court_case_hearings - Hearing records for each case
• court_case_entities - Plaintiff and defendant information

Note: The scraped_dates table is excluded from queries.

Documentation

• Architecture Overview - System design and structure
• Adding Tools Guide - How to add new tools

Development

Adding New Tools

See docs/ADDING_TOOLS.md for a complete guide on adding new tools to the server.

Running Tests

poetry run pytest

Linting

./scripts/format.sh --check

Formatting

poetry run black src/ tests/
poetry run isort src/ tests/

License

Open source - see LICENSE file for details.