A side-by-side look at the Australian Law MCP and RegAI Legal MCP (Taiwan) 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 RegAI Legal MCP (Taiwan) for legal. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
search_law, get_law_text, get_law_as_at.search_law, search_law_titles, get_article_by_number.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | R RegAI Legal MCP (Taiwan) | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Legal | Legal |
| Quality signal | 57/100 · Good | 48/100 · Fair |
| Install command | Confirmed | Not confirmed yet |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | — |
| Auth | Not declared | OAuth 2.0 |
| Pricing | Not declared | Free |
| Required env vars | None listed | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 3 | 0 |
| Directory activity | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 8 | 9 |
| Full listing | View Australian Law MCP | View RegAI Legal MCP (Taiwan) |
search_lawFind acts and instruments by name. Returns the title ids the other tools take.get_law_textThe current compilation: the table of provisions, one section, or the full text paginated. Schedules are addressable too (`section="Schedule 7"`), which is where rate tables and forms actually live.get_law_as_atThe same, but as the law stood on any past date.verify_citationsPull statute citations out of text and check each against the register: does the act exist, is it in force, does the cited section exist. Upstream failures come back as UNVERIFIED, never as a missing law.get_amendment_statusIn force or repealed, what the latest compilation incorporates, whether commenced amendments are still unincorporated, and what has amended it.compare_versionsWhat changed between two dates: sections added, removed, reworded — or a line diff of one section.search_full_textRelevance-ranked search over the body text of every title on the register.check_frl_healthPing the register API so failures elsewhere can be attributed.search_lawSearch law articles by legal concept, keyword or article referencesearch_law_titlesResolve a full or partial law name to the official name(s)get_article_by_numberExact text of one article by law name + number (optionally the official English)get_law_hierarchyChapter / section / article outline of one lawget_law_detailsFull text of an entire law, as Markdownsearch_decisionsSearch court decisions by concept, fact pattern or keyword, ranked by relevancesearch_decisions_exactList **every** decision containing literal phrase(s), with the exact totalget_decision_detailsFull text of one decision by its id (`jid`)search_grand_chamber_decisionsSearch Grand Chamber (大法庭) rulings that resolve divergent interpretationsPaste 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"
]
}
}
}
No confirmed install command for RegAI Legal MCP (Taiwan) yet — follow the setup steps linked from its listing page rather than a guessed package name.