nc://corpus

Corpus: live US-law search with verbatim citations, and a US company-formation intake, as model tools. A Nodecode rewrite of teakesdev/corpus-agent-kit by teakesdev.

Get it

Tell the agent "add the corpus cell", or run nodecode add nc://corpus.

Set it up

corpus.endpoint is the one setting the cell needs, and it is Corpus's own address: https://corpuslaw.us/api/mcp. Without it the cell refuses to start and says so, with the address to paste.

No key is required: the anonymous floor answers, and the formation side is free. To raise the research limit, take a free self-serve key at https://corpuslaw.us/settings and name it in corpus.api_key_env (default CORPUS_API_KEY), or paste it as corpus.api_key in /settings. corpus.jurisdiction is the state or city a search assumes when a call names none.

"corpus": {
  "enabled": true,
  "api_key_env": "CORPUS_API_KEY",
  "jurisdiction": "Austin, TX"
}

Use it

Ask a question about current US law, or ask to start an LLC. The model reaches for the tools itself; (help :corpus) is the primer it reads.

• law_search {query, jurisdiction}: official text with citations, called before the model answers what the law says.
• law_get_node {citation, jurisdiction}: one provision's full text, by the citation a search returned.
• law_coverage {}: which jurisdictions are indexed, so a gap is reported instead of guessed.
• corpus_account {}: credit balance and limits, free.
• corpus_call {tool, arguments}: any other Corpus tool by its dotted name and its own JSON object, the formation family included (formation.requirements, formation.lookup_naics, formation.compare, formation.handoff, formation.checkout, formation.payment_status).

From eval, /corpus QUERY and the corpus package call the same verbs:

(corpus:search "food truck from a residential driveway" :jurisdiction "Austin, TX")
(corpus:provision "Tex. Loc. Gov't Code Sec. 217.042")
(corpus:coverage)
(corpus:account)
(corpus:call-tool "formation.requirements" (nlk:json-object "entityType" "llc" "state" "MS"))

Corpus is not a law firm and does not give legal advice.

What is in it

The original is a configuration-only package for other harnesses: one MCP URL and two prose skills. This cell speaks that protocol itself, with no Node, no MCP client library and nothing fetched at run time.

License

Apache-2.0, the original's licence: see LICENSE and NOTICE.