Norwegian Law MCP Server

Production-grade MCP server for Norwegian legal research with licensing-aware ingestion controls.

What this server provides

Search and retrieval tools for legal documents/provisions
EU cross-reference tooling
Deterministic SQLite build pipeline
Capability detection via DB schema
Daily data freshness monitor with optional auto-PR
Security and publishing workflows (CodeQL, Semgrep, Trivy, Gitleaks, Socket, Scorecard, provenance publish)

Hard architecture parity (implemented)

build:db is destructive and rebuilds from seed files
build:db:paid is additive and upgrades schema/tier metadata
db_metadata table is written and read for runtime capability detection
Database artifacts are gitignored (data/*.db, *.db-wal, *.db-shm)
server.json present and aligned with package.json mcpName

Country-specific ingestion and legal-risk control

Official-source direction for Norway is configured with a licensing gate.

Ingestion script: scripts/ingest-lovdata.ts
License gate module: scripts/lib/legal-data-license.ts
Policy seed: data/seed/_legal_data_license.json
Policy doc: LEGAL_DATA_LICENSE.md

Default policy mode is full-text for covered statutes/regulations and metadata-only for restricted sources (for example case-law channels without explicit rights).

Install

npm ci
npm run build:db
npm run build
npm test

Run

npm start

Key scripts

npm run build:db - destructive free-tier DB rebuild from seeds
npm run build:db:paid - additive professional-tier schema upgrade
npm run ingest -- <LOV-ID> <output-file> - license-gated Norwegian ingestion
npm run ingest:all - ingest full official NL+NLO statute catalog from data/relevant-statutes-all.json
npm run ingest:auto-all - default full-catalog ingestion entrypoint (same dataset as ingest:all)
npm run check-updates - official-source freshness check

Validation commands

npm ci
npm run build:db
npm run build
npm test
npm run check-updates
gitleaks detect --source . --report-format sarif --report-path gitleaks.sarif --no-git

Security workflows

.github/workflows/codeql.yml
.github/workflows/semgrep.yml
.github/workflows/trivy.yml
.github/workflows/gitleaks.yml
.github/workflows/socket-security.yml
.github/workflows/ossf-scorecard.yml

Publishing

npm package publish workflow uses provenance attestation
server.json included for MCP registry compatibility
package.json includes mcpName: eu.ansvar/norwegian-law-mcp

Disclaimer

This project is a legal research tool and not legal advice. Always verify authoritative legal text at official publication links.

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