A side-by-side look at the Australian Law MCP and Korea Tax Law MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Australian Law MCP for legal work as a local process; choose Korea Tax Law for legal as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
search_law, get_law_text, get_law_as_at.LAW_OC, UPSTAGE_API_KEY, KOREAN_TAX_MCP_SOLAR_BASE_URL.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Legal | Legal |
| Quality signal | 63/100 · Good | 37/100 · Fair |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | Not declared | Not declared |
| Pricing | Not declared | Not declared |
| Required env vars | None listed | LAW_OCUPSTAGE_API_KEYKOREAN_TAX_MCP_SOLAR_BASE_URL |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 3 | 3 |
| Directory activity | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 8 | Not listed |
| Full listing | View Australian Law MCP | View Korea Tax Law |
search_lawFinds Commonwealth acts and legislative instruments on the Federal Register of Legislation by title. Returns title ids for the other tools. Falls back to full-text matching when nothing matches by name.get_law_textReturns the latest compilation of a Commonwealth act or instrument. Without a section number it lists the table of sections; with one it returns that provision. Set full=true for the whole text, paginated.get_law_as_atReturns the compilation of a Commonwealth act that was in force on the given date — the register keeps every historical version. Same output shape as get_law_text.get_amendment_statusReports whether a title is in force, what its latest compilation incorporates, whether commenced amendments are still unincorporated, and which acts have amended it.compare_versionsShows what changed in an act between two dates: which sections were added, removed or reworded. Give a section number for a line-by-line diff of that provision.verify_citationsExtracts Australian statute citations from text and checks each against the Federal Register of Legislation: does the act exist, is it still in force, does the cited section exist in the current compilation. Use before presenting legal citations to a user. An upstream failure is reported as UNVERIFIED, never as a missing law.search_full_textSearches the body text of every act and instrument on the register for a phrase, ranked by relevance. Slower and broader than search_law.check_frl_healthPings the Federal Register of Legislation API and reports latency, so failures elsewhere can be attributed.No tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"australian-law-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"australian-law-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"korea-tax-law": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"korean-tax-mcp"
],
"env": {
"LAW_OC": "YOUR_LAW_OC_HERE",
"UPSTAGE_API_KEY": "YOUR_UPSTAGE_API_KEY_HERE",
"KOREAN_TAX_MCP_SOLAR_BASE_URL": "YOUR_KOREAN_TAX_MCP_SOLAR_BASE_URL_HERE"
}
}
}
}