ris-mcp 0.2.0

MCP server for Austrian RIS (court decisions + federal law) backed by a local FTS5-indexed SQLite mirror

ris-mcp

👉 For end users: see jonashertner.github.io/ris-mcp for the three-command install.

Local MCP server for the Austrian Rechtsinformationssystem (RIS) — court decisions and consolidated federal law, queryable from Claude (Code, Desktop, claude.ai).

What

ris-mcp maintains a locally-mirrored, FTS5-indexed SQLite copy of the full Austrian RIS corpus and exposes it to Claude via MCP. Compare to philrox/ris-mcp-ts, which is a thin live-API proxy: local mirror wins on search quality, latency, offline capability, and future citation-graph/reranking work.

Install (users)

See the landing page.

Develop (contributors)

git clone https://github.com/jonashertner/ris-mcp.git
cd ris-mcp
uv venv && uv pip install -e ".[dev]"
.venv/bin/pytest -v

Run the MCP server locally:

.venv/bin/ris-mcp serve

Kick off a full backfill (2–3 days):

.venv/bin/ris-ingest --full

Emit coverage stats:

.venv/bin/ris-ingest coverage --out docs/stats.json

Licenses

• Code: MIT
• Data: CC0-1.0 (amtliches Werk per § 7 öUrhG)

Credits

• ximex/ris-bka — RIS OGD documentation
• philrox/ris-mcp-ts — different design, same goal
• PhilippTh/ris-API-wrapper — Python wrapper precedent
• opencaselaw.ch — architectural inspiration