# Legal Research Agent

> Legal Research Agent — jcpask-legal-research-agent. Use this tool when you need to conduct thorough legal research and cite credible sources. The Legal Research Agent enables searching of US case law and retrieval of full opinion text, as well as lookup of legal definitions, providing accurate and reliable information for legal studies and projects. It accepts search queries and keywords as input and returns relevant case law, opinion text, and definitions as output, making it an ideal resource for students and researchers.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/jcpask-legal-research-agent  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jcpask-legal-research-agent

## Description

MCP server for legal research that enables searching US case law via CourtListener, retrieving full opinion text, and looking up legal definitions from Cornell's Wex. Students can connect via a remote connector in Claude.ai to cite real, free legal sources.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.69
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-29

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** search
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/inu0hwure4)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jcpask/legal-research-agent>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "jcpask-legal-research-agent"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jcpask-legal-research-agent` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jcpask-legal-research-agent/pull`

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