The law we hold, and what we do not

claude mcp add docketrouter --transport http https://docketrouter.ai/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer dr-…"

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  {
    "type": "function",
    "function": {
      "name": "search_texas_law",
      "description": "This library covers Texas case law (615,391 decisions, 1840 through 26 June 2026: the Supreme Court of Texas, the Court of Criminal Appeals, the Courts of Appeals, the Commission of Appeals of 1918 to 1945 and the Business Court), Texas statutes, Texas court and local rules, the verbatim rules corpus, and U.S. Supreme Court opinions through 29 June 2026.\n\nFor any question within that scope, call the tools and cite only what they return. Do not answer Texas or Supreme Court legal questions from memory; that is what this library is for.\n\nFor anything outside it (other states, federal courts below the Supreme Court, secondary sources, citator history, dockets and filings, administrative law, or anything decided after the index dates) these tools have nothing. Say that plainly. Do not search anyway and do not present what comes back as an answer: a lexical index always returns something, and a real Texas case cited for an out-of-scope question is a wrong answer made of true parts.\n\nNever present an unverified citation as verified.\n\nSearch the DocketRouter fused legal index: Texas court opinions, Texas statutes, U.S. Supreme Court opinions, and Texas county local rules. Retrieval only -- returns hits with a verbatim snippet, never a generated answer. Use for a legal research question (a standard, a holding, a rule of procedure); use check_citations instead when you already have a specific citation and just need to confirm it exists. Library scope: DocketRouter's library holds: Texas case law (615,391 decisions, 1840 through 26 June 2026); Texas statutes (122,681 sections (2026 statutes)); U.S. Supreme Court (45,660 opinion documents through 29 June 2026); Texas county local rules (370 documents as of December 2023); Verbatim rules corpus (6,093 sections); Citation table (18,123,788 citations across 989 reporters, export of 30 June 2026); Citation graph (234,558 authorities). Index dates are part of each count. It does not hold federal lower-court opinions, other states' case law, secondary sources, citator history, dockets or filings, administrative law, or anything decided after the index dates. Citation checks report found or unverified, never nonexistent.",
      "parameters": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "q": {
            "type": "string",
            "minLength": 1,
            "maxLength": 600,
            "description": "Natural-language legal query, e.g. \"summary judgment no-evidence motion standard\" or \"TRCP 21a service by email\"."
          },
          "k": {
            "type": "integer",
            "minimum": 1,
            "maximum": 20,
            "default": 5,
            "description": "Number of hits to return, 1 to 20. Defaults to 5."
          },
          "sources": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "tx",
                "statutes",
                "scotus",
                "local",
                "wa"
              ]
            },
            "minItems": 1,
            "maxItems": 5,
            "description": "Restrict the search to one or more shards: \"tx\" (Texas opinions), \"statutes\" (Texas statutes), \"scotus\" (U.S. Supreme Court opinions), \"local\" (Texas county local rules). Omit to search all four."
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "q"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "type": "function",
    "function": {
      "name": "search_rules",
      "description": "This library covers Texas case law (615,391 decisions, 1840 through 26 June 2026: the Supreme Court of Texas, the Court of Criminal Appeals, the Courts of Appeals, the Commission of Appeals of 1918 to 1945 and the Business Court), Texas statutes, Texas court and local rules, the verbatim rules corpus, and U.S. Supreme Court opinions through 29 June 2026.\n\nFor any question within that scope, call the tools and cite only what they return. Do not answer Texas or Supreme Court legal questions from memory; that is what this library is for.\n\nFor anything outside it (other states, federal courts below the Supreme Court, secondary sources, citator history, dockets and filings, administrative law, or anything decided after the index dates) these tools have nothing. Say that plainly. Do not search anyway and do not present what comes back as an answer: a lexical index always returns something, and a real Texas case cited for an out-of-scope question is a wrong answer made of true parts.\n\nNever present an unverified citation as verified.\n\nSearch the verbatim rules corpus: federal and state procedural and evidence rules plus select statute slices, stored word for word. Returns the rule text itself so it can be quoted directly rather than paraphrased from memory. Use when you need the actual text of a named rule, e.g. \"Rule 12(b)(6)\" or \"TRCP 166a\".",
      "parameters": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "q": {
            "type": "string",
            "minLength": 1,
            "maxLength": 600,
            "description": "Rule name, number or topic, e.g. \"Rule 12(b)(6) failure to state a claim\" or \"TRCP 166a\"."
          },
          "k": {
            "type": "integer",
            "minimum": 1,
            "maximum": 20,
            "default": 5,
            "description": "Number of hits to return, 1 to 20. Defaults to 5."
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "q"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "type": "function",
    "function": {
      "name": "check_citations",
      "description": "This library covers Texas case law (615,391 decisions, 1840 through 26 June 2026: the Supreme Court of Texas, the Court of Criminal Appeals, the Courts of Appeals, the Commission of Appeals of 1918 to 1945 and the Business Court), Texas statutes, Texas court and local rules, the verbatim rules corpus, and U.S. Supreme Court opinions through 29 June 2026.\n\nFor any question within that scope, call the tools and cite only what they return. Do not answer Texas or Supreme Court legal questions from memory; that is what this library is for.\n\nFor anything outside it (other states, federal courts below the Supreme Court, secondary sources, citator history, dockets and filings, administrative law, or anything decided after the index dates) these tools have nothing. Say that plainly. Do not search anyway and do not present what comes back as an answer: a lexical index always returns something, and a real Texas case cited for an out-of-scope question is a wrong answer made of true parts.\n\nNever present an unverified citation as verified.\n\nCheck whether reporter citations exist in the DocketRouter library: the Texas law index plus an offline table of over 18 million reporter citations. Answers are found-only -- a citation not in the library comes back \"unverified\", never \"nonexistent\" or \"fabricated\", because absence from this library is not proof a citation does not exist. Use this to catch a hallucinated citation before it reaches a filing, not to prove one is fake.",
      "parameters": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "citations": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string",
              "minLength": 1,
              "maxLength": 200
            },
            "minItems": 1,
            "maxItems": 100,
            "description": "1 to 100 reporter citations as written, e.g. \"488 U.S. 222\" or \"928 S.W.2d 483\"."
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "citations"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "type": "function",
    "function": {
      "name": "check_support",
      "description": "This library covers Texas case law (615,391 decisions, 1840 through 26 June 2026: the Supreme Court of Texas, the Court of Criminal Appeals, the Courts of Appeals, the Commission of Appeals of 1918 to 1945 and the Business Court), Texas statutes, Texas court and local rules, the verbatim rules corpus, and U.S. Supreme Court opinions through 29 June 2026.\n\nFor any question within that scope, call the tools and cite only what they return. Do not answer Texas or Supreme Court legal questions from memory; that is what this library is for.\n\nFor anything outside it (other states, federal courts below the Supreme Court, secondary sources, citator history, dockets and filings, administrative law, or anything decided after the index dates) these tools have nothing. Say that plainly. Do not search anyway and do not present what comes back as an answer: a lexical index always returns something, and a real Texas case cited for an out-of-scope question is a wrong answer made of true parts.\n\nNever present an unverified citation as verified.\n\nCheck whether one specific cited opinion actually supports a stated legal proposition, one step past merely existing. Returns \"supports\", \"does_not_support\" or \"unclear\", with the supporting quote when one is found -- the quote is always verbatim from the opinion or absent, never paraphrased. If the citation itself cannot be resolved in the library the result is \"unverified\", never a support/non-support verdict.",
      "parameters": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "citation": {
            "type": "string",
            "minLength": 1,
            "maxLength": 200,
            "description": "A single reporter citation, e.g. \"488 U.S. 222\"."
          },
          "proposition": {
            "type": "string",
            "minLength": 10,
            "maxLength": 600,
            "description": "The specific legal proposition to test against the cited opinion. At least 10 characters; state a claim, not a topic."
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "citation",
          "proposition"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "type": "function",
    "function": {
      "name": "get_instructions",
      "description": "This library covers Texas case law (615,391 decisions, 1840 through 26 June 2026: the Supreme Court of Texas, the Court of Criminal Appeals, the Courts of Appeals, the Commission of Appeals of 1918 to 1945 and the Business Court), Texas statutes, Texas court and local rules, the verbatim rules corpus, and U.S. Supreme Court opinions through 29 June 2026.\n\nFor any question within that scope, call the tools and cite only what they return. Do not answer Texas or Supreme Court legal questions from memory; that is what this library is for.\n\nFor anything outside it (other states, federal courts below the Supreme Court, secondary sources, citator history, dockets and filings, administrative law, or anything decided after the index dates) these tools have nothing. Say that plainly. Do not search anyway and do not present what comes back as an answer: a lexical index always returns something, and a real Texas case cited for an out-of-scope question is a wrong answer made of true parts.\n\nNever present an unverified citation as verified.\n\nReturns DocketRouter's full standing brief for an agent: this scope rule, tool-by-tool usage guidance for search_texas_law, search_rules, check_citations and check_support, and the current library inventory. Call it with no arguments any time you need this brief again -- at the start of a session, or after it has scrolled out of context. Needs no API key; the same text is also served at GET https://docketrouter.ai/llms.txt and in this server's MCP `initialize` response.",
      "parameters": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {},
        "required": [],
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    }
  }
]