dk-eli-mcp

An MCP server for the Danish Retsinformation legal database (retsinformation.dk). It fetches Danish legislation as LexDania 2.1 XML behind native ELI URIs, with verifiable citations.

Part of the MateMatic eu-legal-mcp production line - after PL, DE, AT, ES, FI, IE, NL, SE, FR and LU. Same citation contract, Retsinformation source. Denmark is ELI-native: every document has a stable data.europa.eu/eli-typed identifier exposed as a retsinformation.dk/eli/... URL.

Scope. This MVP grounds Danish documents by ELI coordinate (year + number in the lta collection = Lovtidende A) or by accession number, and lists documents changed on a date. The API is path-based, not keyword search. It covers laws (LOV), consolidated laws (LBK), executive orders (BEK), circulars (CIR) and guidelines (VEJ). Language: Danish. Every response carries a dataset_note.

Licence of the data. Danish legislation in Retsinformation is official public information published as Open Data (keyless). This connector relays it with attribution and a source_url.

The tools

Tool	What it does
`dk_get_act`	Metadata for a document by year + number, or by accession.
`dk_get_text`	Full LexDania XML of a document (verbatim official text).
`dk_recent_changes`	Documents changed on a given date (harvest API).
`dk_coverage`	Declare what this connector covers, when each family was captured, and - explicitly - what it does NOT cover. Every gap carries a fallback.

Every response carries the contract: eli_uri (a full ELI URL, e.g. https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2018/502), human_readable_citation (e.g. Databeskyttelsesloven (LOV nr. 502 af 23/05/2018)), and source_url.

Install

Run it with no install step (once published to PyPI):

bash

uvx dk-eli-mcp

Or from source:

bash

cd dk-eli-mcp
pip install -e .

Configure (Claude Code / any MCP client)

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dk-eli-mcp": { "command": "dk-eli-mcp" }
  }
}

Windows 11 with Smart App Control

Smart App Control blocks unsigned executables, which covers uvx.exe, pip.exe and the dk-eli-mcp.exe launcher that pip writes at install time. The python.exe and py.exe from the python.org installer are signed by the Python Software Foundation, so running the module through the interpreter works:

bash

python -m pip install dk-eli-mcp
python -m dk_eli_mcp

pip.exe is blocked for the same reason, so install with python -m pip, not pip install. If python is not on PATH, use the Windows launcher: py -3 -m dk_eli_mcp.

config.json

{ "mcpServers": { "dk-eli-mcp": { "command": "python", "args": ["-m", "dk_eli_mcp"] } } }

Do not turn Smart App Control off to work around this - it cannot be re-enabled without reinstalling Windows.

Environment:

DK_ELI_BASE_URL - default https://www.retsinformation.dk
DK_ELI_API_URL - default https://api.retsinformation.dk (harvest API)
DK_ELI_CACHE_DIR - default ~/.matematic/cache/dk-eli
DK_ELI_AUDIT_DIR - default ~/.matematic/audit

No API key. Retsinformation open data is keyless.

The harvest API behind dk_recent_changes is only available 03:00-23:45 Danish time. Outside that window the tool returns an upstream_error; an empty list during the window means nothing changed on that date.

Governance

Public data only - read-only against Retsinformation; no client data leaves the machine.
Audit log - every tool call appends one JSON line to ~/.matematic/audit/dk-eli-mcp.jsonl.
Vendor-neutral - talks only to retsinformation.dk; no LLM provider, no telemetry.
Verifiable citations - every response is independently checkable via source_url.

See CONSTITUTION.md and DISCOVERY.md.

Tests

Terminal

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest tests/test_instructions_drift.py tests/test_parse.py -v   # offline
pytest tests/test_smoke.py -v                                    # hits live Retsinformation