A side-by-side look at the Courtlistener MCP Server and Romania MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Courtlistener MCP Server for legal work as a local process; choose Romania for legal as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
courtlistener_search_opinions, courtlistener_get_opinion, courtlistener_get_citations.ROMANIA_MCP_CACHE, ROMANIA_MCP_CACHE_PATH.shop_check, company_lookup, company_financials.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | R Romania | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Legal | Legal |
| Quality signal | 57/100 · Good | 53/100 · Good |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | Not declared | No auth required |
| Pricing | Not declared | Free |
| Required env vars | None listed | ROMANIA_MCP_CACHEROMANIA_MCP_CACHE_PATH |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 4 | 0 |
| Directory activity | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 14 | 6 |
| Full listing | View Courtlistener MCP Server | View Romania |
courtlistener_search_opinionsFull-text search across 9M+ court opinions with field syntax, court, date, and status filterscourtlistener_get_opinionFetch an opinion cluster's metadata and the full text of every variant (majority, concurrence, dissent)courtlistener_get_citationsTrace a cluster's citation network: opinions it cites (`citing`) or that cite it (`cited_by`)courtlistener_lookup_citationResolve every citation in a text (e.g. "410 U.S. 113") to cluster IDs and case metadatacourtlistener_search_docketsSearch RECAP federal dockets by case name, party, attorney, court, and filing datecourtlistener_get_docketFetch a federal docket's metadata and paged entry list with document availabilitycourtlistener_get_partiesFetch the parties and attorneys of record on a RECAP docketcourtlistener_search_judgesSearch judges by name, appointing president, court, and political affiliationcourtlistener_get_judgeFetch a judge's positions, education, political affiliations, and ABA ratingscourtlistener_lookup_courtsList courts by jurisdiction type, active/inactive status, and scraper coveragecourtlistener_search_oral_argumentsSearch appellate oral argument recordings by case name, transcript text, court, and argument datecourtlistener_get_oral_argumentFetch one oral argument's panel, duration, MP3 link, and speech-to-text transcriptshop_checkis this online shop legit? reads the CUI off the site, checks the company, its financials, insolvency cases and how old the site is, returns red flags / warnings / good signscompany_lookupstatus of up to 500 companies by CUI: name, address, Reg. Com. number, CAEN, deregistered, VAT registered, VAT on collection, split VAT, fiscally inactive, e-Factura registry. optionally as of a past datecompany_financialsfiled balance sheets year by year: revenue, profit/loss, employees, debts, equity, cashcourt_casescases in every Romanian court by party name or case number: stage, parties and roles, latest outcome, next hearing, insolvency as debtorexchange_rateBNR reference rate for any day since 2005, with conversioniban_checkis an IBAN well formed, which Romanian bank issued it, is it a Treasury accountPaste 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": {
"courtlistener-mcp-server": {
"command": "bunx",
"args": [
"@cyanheads/courtlistener-mcp-server@latest"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"romania": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"romania-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"ROMANIA_MCP_CACHE": "YOUR_ROMANIA_MCP_CACHE_HERE",
"ROMANIA_MCP_CACHE_PATH": "YOUR_ROMANIA_MCP_CACHE_PATH_HERE"
}
}
}
}