CourtListener MCP — Free Law Project's CourtListener API (free, no auth required for basic access)
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ask_pipeworx
PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for questions about current or historical data: SEC filings, FDA drug data, FRED/BLS economic statistics, government records, USPTO patents, ATTOM real estate, weather, clinical trials, news, stocks, crypto, sports, academic papers, or anything requiring authoritative structur
ask_pipeworx_beta
Beta version of ask_pipeworx: identical universal router (same 5,543 tools, same arguments, same response shape) with candidate routing improvements enabled live whenever one is under test. No candidate is active right now (the last was retired on outcome evidence 2026-07-26), so this currently matc
ask_pipeworx_grounded
Hallucination-resistant answer mode for high-stakes reads. Same routing as ask_pipeworx — picks the right tool from 5,543 across 1459 sources, fills arguments, fetches the data — then EXTRACTS the answer using ONLY what the tool result contains. Returns {answer, evidence (verbatim quote), confidence
search_within
Semantic search INSIDE a fetched record. Pass the text you already pulled (e.g. a SEC 10-K body, an article, a long tool result) plus a natural-language query; get back the top-N passages with character offsets and similarity scores. Use when the record is too big to cram into the prompt — search_wi
deep_research
ACCOUNT REQUIRED (free — sign in via GitHub at https://pipeworx.io/signup; depth:"thorough" needs a paid plan). If you are not signed in, use ask_pipeworx instead — it works on every tier. Grounded multi-source research across Pipeworx's 1459 STRUCTURED data sources (SEC filings, FRED/BLS economics,
discover_tools
Find tools by describing the data or task. Use when you need to browse, search, look up, or discover what tools exist for: SEC filings, financials, revenue, profit, FDA drugs, adverse events, FRED economic data, Census demographics, BLS jobs/unemployment/inflation, ATTOM real estate, ClinicalTrials,
resolve_entity
"What's the ticker for…" / "find the CIK for…" / "what's the LEI for…" / "what's the RxCUI for…" / "look up the ID for…" / "what is X's official identifier" / "who owns X" / "is X a subsidiary of Y" — resolve a user-spoken NAME to the canonical/official identifiers other tools require as input. Use
compare_entities
"Compare X and Y" / "X vs Y" / "X versus Y" / "which is bigger / better / larger / more profitable" / "rank these companies" / "head to head" — side-by-side comparison of 2–5 companies or drugs in ONE parallel call. ALWAYS PREFER over sequential single-pack lookups when comparing entities. type="com
subscribe
Create a proactive monitoring subscription to a live-data event stream. Returns the new subscription id. Requires a Pipeworx OAuth account (anonymous + BYO cannot persist subscriptions). Supported types: "sec_8k" (8-K filings matching ticker + item codes — e.g. items:["5.02"] = officer change), "pol
unsubscribe
Cancel a subscription by id. Ownership is enforced — you can only cancel your own subscriptions. The row is deactivated (not deleted) so its historical events stay available via recent_alerts.
list_subscriptions
List the caller's active subscriptions. Returns id, type, params, created_at, last_fired_at, fire_count for each. Use this to review what you're monitoring before adding more or to find an id to cancel.
recent_alerts
Pull fired events from your subscription feed. Returns the most recent alerts the evaluator has written to your persisted feed — each carries source, citation_uri (pipeworx:// when available), and the raw event payload. Filter by type (e.g. "sec_8k") and/or since (ISO timestamp). Set mark_read:true
entity_profile
"Tell me about X" / "research Acme" / "brief me on Tesla" / "what does Apple do" / "company profile for Microsoft" / "give me the rundown on NVDA" / "everything you know about $TICKER" — full cross-source profile of a US public company in ONE parallel call. ALWAYS PREFER over chaining single-pack SE
recent_changes
"What's new with X" / "latest on Y" / "what happened to Z this week / month / quarter" / "updates on Acme" / "news on Tesla recently" / "what's happening with Apple" — change feed for a company in the last N days/weeks/months in ONE parallel call. Fans out to SEC EDGAR (filings since `since`), GDELT
validate_claim
"Is it true that…" / "fact check" / "verify the claim that…" / "did X really…" / "was Y actually…" / "confirm or refute" / "true or false" — natural-language claim verification against authoritative sources. Use whenever the agent needs to check whether something a user said is factually correct. Co
scan_dependency
Composite "should I add this npm package to my project" check in ONE call — fans out across deps.dev (license + advisories + version history) and bundlephobia (gzipped/minified bundle size, dependency count, ESM/tree-shake support). Use whenever an agent asks "is X safe / popular / small" or "what d
bet_research
Research a Polymarket bet by pulling the relevant Pipeworx data for it in one call. Pass a market slug ("will-bitcoin-hit-150k-by-june-30-2026"), a polymarket.com URL, or a question text. The tool resolves the market, classifies the bet, fans out to category-specific data packs in parallel, and retu
polymarket_arbitrage
Find arbitrage opportunities on Polymarket via monotonicity violations + partition-sum checks. Call with NO args for a `trending_scan` of the top ~200 markets by weekly volume; pass `event` for the strongest per-event partition_check, or `topic` for a themed cross-event scan. `event` (recommended fo
polymarket_edges
Scan top Polymarket markets and return opportunities where Pipeworx data disagrees with market price. Built for "what should I bet on today" — agents discover opportunities without paging hundreds of markets. FIVE MODEL FAMILIES grouped into three response segments under by_segment: (1) MODEL_DRIVEN
polymarket_kalshi_spread
Cross-venue spread between Kalshi and Polymarket for the same resolving question. The two venues sometimes price the same outcome 2-25pp apart because their participant pools differ — when the bet shapes are equivalent that delta is a real signal, when they aren't the tool says so. TWO MODES: (1) `t
polymarket_fill_risk
Realizable-vs-theoretical edge check against live CLOB order-book depth. REQUIRES one of `market` (single-market mode) or `event` (basket/partition mode). SINGLE-MARKET: pass a market slug/URL + side (buy_yes|sell_yes|buy_no|sell_no, default buy_yes) + size_usd (default 1000 — max spend on buys, tar
polymarket_edge_tracker
Edge persistence and decay telemetry built from daily polymarket_edges snapshots. Answers "how long has this edge existed and is it shrinking?" — a fresh wide edge and a 3-week-old wide edge are different trades (the latter is wide for a reason nobody is willing to take). Args: days (lookback, defau
pipeworx_trending
What other AI agents are calling on Pipeworx right now. Returns the top tools, top packs, and total call volume over a recent window (24h, 7d, or 30d). Useful for: (1) discovering what data sources are hot for current events, (2) confirming a popular tool is the canonical choice before asking your o
suggest_questions
What can I ask Pipeworx? / what is Pipeworx good for? / what can you do? / give me ideas / show me examples / getting started / what data do you have? — the onboarding entry point for an agent that just connected and wants to know what is worth asking. Returns category-bucketed example questions (co
generate_llms_txt
Generate a production-ready llms.txt file for any URL so AI crawlers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) can index the site cleanly. Fetches the page, extracts title/description/key links, and emits the standard llms.txt markdown format. Output is a single text blob ready to drop at site-root/llms.txt. Us
ai_visibility_check
Probe one or more LLMs for what they know about a business / brand / product / topic and score visibility (0-100) per model. Default model is Workers AI Llama-3.3-70b (free); pass `_apiKey` to also probe Anthropic (BYO key — you pay Anthropic directly for those calls). Returns per-model {score, conf
scan_competitor_ai_presence
Compare AI visibility across multiple entities side-by-side. Probes each entity (your brand + N competitors) with ai_visibility_check, ranks by score, surfaces which is most/least recognized. Useful for competitive AI-marketing audits: "does Claude know about us as well as our competitors?". Returns
pipeworx_feedback
Tell the Pipeworx team something is broken, missing, or needs to exist. Use when a tool returns wrong/stale data (bug), when a tool you wish existed isn't in the catalog (feature/data_gap), or when something worked surprisingly well (praise). ONLY for tools served by this Pipeworx connection — if th
remember
Save data the agent will need to reuse later — across this conversation or across sessions. Use when you discover something worth carrying forward (a resolved ticker, a target address, a user preference, a research subject) so you don't have to look it up again. Stored as a key-value pair scoped by
recall
Retrieve a value previously saved via remember, or list all saved keys (omit the key argument). Use to look up context the agent stored earlier — the user's target ticker, an address, prior research notes — without re-deriving it from scratch. Scoped to your identifier (anonymous IP, BYO key hash, o
forget
Delete a previously stored memory by key. Use when context is stale, the task is done, or you want to clear sensitive data the agent saved earlier. Pair with remember and recall.
search_opinions
Search US court opinions from CourtListener — 8.3 million of them, with no API key and no rate limit. Covers the UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT (SCOTUS), the federal circuit courts of appeals, the federal district courts, and the state courts (71% of the corpus is state case law). THE tool for what a U
search_dockets
Search US court dockets by keyword. Covers PACER and RECAP archives. Each result carries docket_id, case name, court, filing and termination dates, docket number, nature of suit, the cause of action, the assigned judge, and the PACER case id.
search_case_law
Search the FULL TEXT of US court opinions by subject matter — "qualified immunity for police dogs", "securities fraud scienter pleading standard". Searches the full text of CourtListener opinions with no API key and no rate limit, and returns the most relevant opinion ids, a relevance score and how
find_case
Find a US court case BY NAME and get its citations, filing date, judges and how often it has been cited. Searches 8.3 million opinions across 3,361 courts — no API key, no rate limit. Ranked by citation count, so the leading case for a name comes first. Use this when you know what the case is CALLED
lookup_citation
Resolve a US reporter citation such as "410 U.S. 113" or "347 U.S. 483" to the case it refers to, with name, filing date, judges and citation count. No API key, no rate limit. Use when a brief, opinion or article cites a case by reporter and you need to know which case that is.
list_case_opinions
List every opinion filed in one case (cluster) — majority, concurrences and dissents — with the opinion_id needed to read each one via get_opinion. No API key, no rate limit. Use after find_case or lookup_citation to get from a case to its readable text.
get_opinion
Get the FULL TEXT of a US court opinion by its CourtListener opinion ID (the opinion_id returned by search_opinions). Covers 8.3 million opinions, 71% state case law — no API key needed. Returns the opinion text, the case name, the real filing date, author, citation count, whether the text came from
list_docket_filings
List the filings on a US FEDERAL district or bankruptcy court docket — every complaint, motion, order and exhibit RECAP has recorded for that case, in filing order, with the document id, entry number, filing date, page count and a link to the PDF. This is the docket sheet: what was filed, when, and
get_docket_filing
Get one filing from a US federal court docket by its document id — the entry description as the clerk wrote it, the filing date, page count, the docket_id it belongs to, a text excerpt where the document has been scanned, and a direct PDF link. Use after list_docket_filings or search_court_filings t
search_court_filings
Search the TEXT of US federal court filings — complaints, motions, briefs, orders and exhibits from PACER as archived in RECAP, roughly 9.7 million documents. Use this to find what was actually argued or ordered in litigation ("trade secret misappropriation", a company named as a defendant, a specif
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