Legislens

Name: Legislens
Author: CloudCorpRecords

by CloudCorpRecordsversion 0.1.0i★ –iRuns on your computer

Registry nameio.github.CloudCorpRecords/legislens

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

US state bills and hearing transcripts: search bills, testimony, speakers, hearings.

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Connection: Runs on your computer
Transport: stdio
Category: Search & AI memory

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Before you install

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You need

npmNode.js installed (for the npx command)

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Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "legislens": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@reneturcios/legislens",
        "mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add legislens -- npx -y @reneturcios/legislens mcp

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Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "legislens": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@reneturcios/legislens",
        "mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "legislens": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@reneturcios/legislens",
        "mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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What it can do

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Basic checksi

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Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

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Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.1.0) reached the registry 4 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. You also need Node.js, Docker on your computer.

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README from the maker

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legislens

legislens gives you a window onto US state lawmaking: bills moving through legislatures in all 50 states and DC, and what was actually said about them in committee hearings, attributed to the person who said it. One binary serves a command-line interface and a stdio MCP server.

legislens does not hold the archive itself. It is a forwarding client for a hosted API: each request is sent to that service and its answer is returned. The bills, testimony segments, transcripts, and coverage are the hosted service's; if it is unavailable or its coverage changes, legislens reflects that.

An API key is required. Set GAVELIN_API_KEY before use; when it is missing or blank, every tool fails with an error naming it before any request is made. The key is sent as Authorization: Bearer . The API base URL can be overridden with LEGISLENS_API_URL; when it is not set, calls go to https://api.gavelin.ai (a reconstruction of the wire address, labelled as such).

Install

npx @reneturcios/legislens list_available_states

Or run the container image:

docker run -i ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/legislens

The container defaults to the MCP server (see below). Pass CLI arguments to use it as a CLI instead.

CLI

The subcommands mirror the MCP tool names:

export GAVELIN_API_KEY=<your key>

legislens search_bills --query housing --state CA --status passed legislens search_bills --sponsor Lee --committee Housing --chamber assembly legislens search_hearing_testimony --query "rent control" --speaker Lee legislens get_bill_detail --bill-id CA-AB1 legislens get_speaker_activity --speaker "Jane Lee" legislens search_committee_hearings --topic housing --from-date 2026-01-01 --to-date 2026-02-01 legislens get_hearing_transcript --hearing-id h-9 legislens list_available_states

legislens --version

Results print the upstream JSON payload. Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 when a call fails (including a missing key or an upstream API error), 2 for usage errors.

MCP server

One bin serves both faces. The mcp subcommand starts a stdio MCP server:

npx -y @reneturcios/legislens mcp

MCP client configuration:

"mcpServers": { "legislens": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/legislens", "mcp"], "env": { "GAVELIN_API_KEY": "..." } } } }

Tools

Tool	Input	What it does
`search_bills`	`query`, `state`, `sponsor`, `committee`, `status`, `chamber` (all optional)	Search bills by keyword, sponsor, committee, status, or chamber.
`search_hearing_testimony`	`query` (required), `speaker`, `committee`	Search speaker-attributed testimony segments.
`get_bill_detail`	`bill_id` (required)	Full bill detail, including history and hearing mentions.
`get_speaker_activity`	`speaker` (required)	Everything a legislator or witness has said.
`search_committee_hearings`	`topic`, `committee`, `chamber`, `from_date`, `to_date` (all optional)	Browse committee hearings.
`get_hearing_transcript`	`hearing_id` (required)	Full hearing transcript with speakers labelled.
`list_available_states`	(none)	States with data and the data types available for each.

Dates use YYYY-MM-DD form as from_date / to_date. All inputs are strings.

Development

npm install

npm run build # tsc -> dist/ npm test # node test runner over test/*.test.ts, no network (fake fetch fixtures) npm run dev # run the CLI from source via tsx

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Legislens

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Search & AI memoryi

Common questions

Alternatives

Context7

Codebase Memory

Exa

README from the maker

legislens

Install

CLI

MCP server

Tools

Development

License