Virgin Islands Code README

@pipeworx/virgin-islands-code

Virgin Islands Code (V.I.C.), the statutes of the US Virgin Islands, 2026 edition — full section text by citation, keyword search within a title, and the list of all 37 titles. Keyless.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1773+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

• vi_statute(citation) — full text of a V.I.C. section by citation ("14 V.I.C. § 922" is first and second degree murder; "11A V.I.C. § 2-201" is the UCC statute of frauds). Also accepts "14 VIC 922", "V.I. Code Ann. tit. 14, § 922" and "Title 14, Section 922". Returns the heading, the statutory text and the "History:" amendment line.
• vi_search(title, query, limit?) — keyword search inside ONE title; every word must appear in a section's heading or text. Heading matches list first, then code order. Returns citations, headings and a snippet.
• vi_titles() — all 37 titles (1-34 plus 11A, 12A, 15A) with their official names and section counts, for routing a subject to a title.

A miss is an answer, not an error: an unknown title, a section the title does not carry, or a search with no match returns found: false with a reason and data_as_of. An upstream failure (non-404 status, timeout, a page that no longer has the section markup) is a loud error, never found: false.

Auth

Keyless.

Data sources

• USVI Public Records (a VI Update project, usvipublicrecords.com), Virgin Islands Code 2026 edition — the archive's own text edition, set from the Virgin Islands Code 2026 Edition, all 37 titles and 12,420 sections.

Why this source

The Virgin Islands was the one US jurisdiction without a code pack after DC and the other four inhabited territories shipped (fleet #2888-#2892). The only free copy of the current Code we had found sat behind a bot check, and the commercial publisher bars automated access (fleet #2907). Bruce pointed at USVI Public Records, which publishes the Code as readable text.

Reuse terms

From the publisher's own pages, quoted:

• The Code page: "This is the archive's own edition of a public text; the statutory text is an edict of government and belongs to no one."
• USVI Public Records' terms page, on what the archive itself carries: "U.S. government works (public domain), acts and edicts of the V.I. government (uncopyrightable by law) …"
• Its robots policy: "Search engines, AI answer engines and assistants acting for a person are all welcome", with Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes.

This pack fetches per request and copies nothing in bulk.

Being a polite client

The publisher bills the website host per gigabyte and asks software not to crawl it. The Code is only published there, one page per title (Title 14 is ~770 KB, Title 11A ~1.1 MB), so:

• every fetch asks Cloudflare to keep the title page at the edge for a day, so repeated lookups in the same title cost the publisher about one request a day;
• vi_search needs a title instead of fanning out across all 37 pages for every query.

If traffic grows enough that a full copy makes sense, ask the publisher first (tips@viupdate.com is on their machine-access page). Don't start crawling.

Edge probe

Checked 2026-10-12 from a throwaway elias-vi-probe Worker running under wrangler dev --remote, sending this pack's User-Agent:

There's no challenge page and no block on Worker egress.

Page shape, for whoever touches the parser

Each title page puts every section in an <article class="sec" id="s-<n>"> with the citation in span.num, the heading after it in the h3, and the text plus a trailing "History:" line in div.body. Ids are the lowercased section number and are unique per page (checked on Titles 14 and 11A): 922, 1508a, and the UCC's article-dashed 2a-525. There are no per-section pages. A title that doesn't exist returns 404, which the pack reports as unknown_title.

Some headings carry a stray "v2" from the source edition (for example, 14 V.I.C. § 151 "v2 Abortion Defined; When Authorized"). The pack returns them exactly as published.

Quick Start

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

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

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/virgin-islands-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 1773+ 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/vi_statute \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"citation":"14 V.I.C. § 922"}'

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

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-virgin-islands-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 Virgin Islands Code data" })

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

More

• Docs and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT