sg-eli-mcp

An MCP server for Singapore Statutes Online (SSO, sso.agc.gov.sg), the Attorney-General's Chambers' official portal for Singapore legislation. It browses, fetches, and cites Acts, with a verifiable citation on every response.

Part of the MateMatic eu-legal-mcp production line, extended into Asia alongside jp-eli-mcp. Same citation contract (a stable identifier + a human-readable citation + a source URL), adapted for a jurisdiction with no ELI and no public search API.

Scope. SSO's robots.txt disallows /search; discovery here is by browsing the current Acts listing (sg_list_acts, paginated), not by title or keyword query. Fetch a specific section (sg_get_provision) or the full text (sg_get_full_text, truncated for very large Acts). Every response carries a dataset_note.

Licence. SSO legislation is official public information published by the Singapore government. This connector relays it with attribution and a source_url, respects robots.txt (no /search calls), and does not cache more aggressively than a normal browser visit would.

The tools

Tool	What it does
`sg_list_acts`	Browse the current Acts, paginated (no keyword search - see Scope above).
`sg_get_provision`	The text of one numbered section of an Act, by `act_code` and section number.
`sg_get_full_text`	The full text of an Act (truncated at ~300,000 characters).
`sg_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 (Singapore has no ELI - this is the durable SSO act URL, e.g. https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/CoA1967, see eli_note), human_readable_citation (the Act title as SSO itself renders it, e.g. Companies Act 1967), and source_url.

Install

Not yet on PyPI - install from source until the first release ships:

bash

git clone https://github.com/matematicsolutions/sg-eli-mcp
cd sg-eli-mcp
pip install -e .

Once released, this will be uvx sg-eli-mcp.

Configuration via env:

SG_ELI_BASE_URL - default https://sso.agc.gov.sg
SG_ELI_CACHE_DIR - default ~/.matematic/cache/sg-eli
SG_ELI_AUDIT_DIR - default ~/.matematic/audit

No API key. SSO is keyless.

Configure (Claude Code / any MCP client)

config.json

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

Windows 11 with Smart App Control

Smart App Control blocks unsigned executables, which covers uvx.exe, pip.exe and the sg-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 sg-eli-mcp
python -m sg_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 sg_eli_mcp.

config.json

{ "mcpServers": { "sg-eli-mcp": { "command": "python", "args": ["-m", "sg_eli_mcp"] } } }

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

Governance

Public data only - read-only against SSO; no client data leaves the machine.
Robots-compliant - never calls /search (disallowed by SSO's robots.txt); discovery uses only the allowed /Browse listing.
Audit log - every tool call appends one JSON line to ~/.matematic/audit/sg-eli-mcp.jsonl.
Vendor-neutral - talks only to sso.agc.gov.sg; 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 -v   # offline
pytest tests/test_smoke.py -v                # hits live SSO