New York Code — New York statutes by citation

The New York Consolidated Laws. Give it PEN and 125.25, get back murder in the second degree.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1683+ live data sources.

Auth

Needs a key, unlike the other state packs. NY Senate's Open Legislation requires one — free from https://legislation.nysenate.gov/. Pipeworx fronts one; pass _apiKey to use your own.

The one state source that tells the truth about a miss

Every other state statute site returns HTTP 200 with an empty page when a section does not exist, so each pack has to detect emptiness structurally. New York returns success: false. That is worth knowing when comparing behaviour across the state packs — here the not-found is the upstream's own verdict, not our inference.

Tools

Caveats

• The API returns literal \n sequences, not newlines. This pack unescapes them; raw callers of the API will see them.
• effective_date matters. New York versions its statutes, so the text you get is as of a date — check it before relying on wording.
• Section numbers are not contiguous; repealed sections are normal.

Data source

NY Senate Open Legislation API. New York statutes are public record.

Quick Start

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

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

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/new-york-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 1683+ 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/ny_law_section \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"law":"PEN","section":"125.25"}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/ny_law_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": {
    "new-york-code": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-new-york-code"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-new-york-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 New York Code data" })

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

More

• Docs and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT