Georgia Code README

@pipeworx/georgia-code

Official Code of Georgia Annotated (O.C.G.A.) — Georgia state statutes by citation and by topic search, with historical versions and legislative/amendment history.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1704+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

• ga_code_section(citation) — the current text of a Code section by citation (any natural form: "16-5-1", "O.C.G.A. § 44-7-34", "Ga. Code Ann. § 16-5-1", "Title 16, Chapter 5, Section 1"). Returns status (active/repealed/reserved), the legislative history line (the Acts that enacted and amended it), editor's notes and cross references, and every stored historical version when a section has more than one — e.g. a delayed effective date.
• ga_code_search(query, limit?, headings_only?) — full-text topic search over the Code's body text and catchlines. Returns ranked citations with a highlighted snippet; pass the citation to ga_code_section for the full text.

Auth

Keyless. No signup, no key, on either side of the call.

Data sources

• https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/code/sections/{citation} — section lookup.
• https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/code/search?q= — full-text search (in=headings narrows to headings/catchlines only).
• Documented at https://georgiacommons.org/api and https://georgiacommons.org/api/endpoints.

Why this isn't a Lexis call. Georgia's own publishing arrangement — the Code Revision Commission, for the General Assembly (legis.ga.gov) — contracts the OCGA's online text out to LexisNexis (advance.lexis.com), which is a login-shaped surface this pack does not touch. The statutory text itself carries no copyright: Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., 590 U.S. 255 (2020) held the OCGA (text and annotations) is an edict of government. Georgia Commons — an independent project of Georgia Civic Data, explicitly "not affiliated with, operated by, or endorsed by the State of Georgia" — publishes that public-domain text as a CC0-1.0, keyless, no-signup JSON API, current through the 2025 Regular Session, extracted from the state's own officially released volumes (each record's source_link points back to the original legis.ga.gov PDF). This pack calls that API live, per request.

Four capabilities, one response shape. GET /api/code/sections/{citation} carries all four at once:

• citation lookup — the top-level fields (catchline, status, heading_path).
• topic/full-text search — the separate /search endpoint.
• historical version — the versions[] array; version_count is 1 for most sections and >1 for ones with a delayed or superseded effective date.
• amendments/history — the history string (Acts that enacted/amended the section) and notes (editor's notes, cross references, law review articles).

Rate limits (documented, no key): 120 requests/min, 2,000/hr, shared across Georgia Commons' bills/opinions/code collections. One request per tool call here; a 429 carries Retry-After.

Citation parsing is upstream's job, not ours. The API itself accepts "16-5-1", "O.C.G.A. § 16-5-1", "Ga. Code Ann. § 16-5-1", "Code Section 16-5-1", and "Title 16, Chapter 5, Section 1" — this pack passes the caller's string through URL-encoded rather than re-parsing it, and lets the upstream's own 404 (which names the nearest sections and the accepted forms) do the error handling.

Scope note. The upstream API also serves General Assembly bills, Supreme Court of Georgia opinions, and both the Georgia and U.S. constitutions under the same /api/{collection} grammar — out of scope for this pack, which is statutes only.

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "georgia-code": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/georgia-code/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/georgia-code/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1704+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/ga_code_section \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"citation":"16-5-1"}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/ga_code_section. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Standalone (no gateway account)

This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "georgia-code": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-georgia-code"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-georgia-code

It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Georgia Code data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• Docs and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT