Ris Austria Mcp Server

io.github.cyanheadsPublished by GitHub account cyanheadsv0.6.1Updated Oct 31, 2026

Search Austrian federal and state law, court decisions, and the authentic Bundesgesetzblatt (RIS).

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Overview

AI-generated overview

Searches Austria's official RIS legal database: consolidated law, court decisions, gazettes, drafts and announcements, with citation lookup and full-text…

What you can do
  • Search consolidated federal, state and municipal law, including English translations, as in force on a chosen date
  • Search case law in one court or tribunal per call, by text, cited norm, case number or date
  • Browse federal, state, district and municipal gazettes back to 1848, plus review drafts, government bills and seven sectoral announcement collections
  • Resolve a single citation (norm, gazette number, case number or ECLI) to its RIS document
  • Fetch one document as markdown, HTML or XML with its binding status and authentic PDF link, and track documents added, changed or deleted in a date window
  • Look up RIS codes offline: applications, courts, states, ministries, gazette parts, search syntax
When to use it
Useful when answering questions about Austrian law, checking what a statute said on a given date, finding court decisions citing a provision, or monitoring new legislation and gazette publications. Also handy for resolving an Austrian legal citation to its official source.
Requirements
Either the public hosted endpoint (no install, no API key) or a local process via npx, Docker, or a source build (Bun 1.4+ or Node.js 24+). No credentials are required; optional variables set the RIS API and content base URLs, a contact string for the User-Agent, transport, port, auth mode and log level. Network access to RIS is needed.
Before you install
Read-only: the tools search and fetch documents and do not change anything. RIS text, titles and metadata are returned as data, and the server instructs assistants not to treat them as instructions. Consolidated law is informational only, so legally binding text must be cited from the gazette. Requests go to Austrian government RIS endpoints, and the optional contact string is sent in the User-Agent.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Ris Austria Mcp Server in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/io.github.cyanheads%2Fris-austria-mcp-server/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ris-austria": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ris-austria.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

@cyanheads/ris-austria-mcp-server

Search Austrian consolidated federal & state law, court decisions, and the authentic Bundesgesetzblatt from the official RIS via MCP. Keyless. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.

9 Tools • 1 Resource


Overview

Austrian law from RIS, the government's official legal information system: federal, state, and municipal law, court decisions, official gazettes back to 1848, draft legislation, and ministerial decrees. Every document is labeled with its binding status. No API key required.

Tools

ToolDescription
ris_search_legislationSearch consolidated federal, state, and municipal law as in force on a date (default today), plus English translations of selected laws
ris_search_case_lawSearch case law in one court or tribunal per call, across 17 court codes
ris_search_gazetteBrowse the federal, state, district, and municipal gazettes, with federal history auto-routed back to 1848
ris_search_draftsSearch ministerial review drafts (Begutachtungsentwürfe) and government bills (Regierungsvorlagen)
ris_search_announcementsSearch seven sectoral collections, from social-insurance notices to ministerial decrees and council-of-ministers minutes
ris_lookup_citationResolve one Austrian legal citation ("§ 6 DSG", "BGBl. I Nr. 165/1999", a Geschäftszahl or ECLI) to its document
ris_get_documentFetch one document as markdown, HTML, or XML, or just its rendition URLs, with its binding status
ris_track_changesList every document added, changed, or deleted in one application within a date window
ris_list_referenceLook up RIS vocabularies offline: applications, courts, states, ministries, gazette parts, citation formats, search syntax

Resources

ResourceDescription
ris://document/{application}/{documentNumber}Markdown text of one RIS document

The resource mirrors ris_get_document, so tool-only clients lose nothing.

Capability reference

ris_search_legislation tool

  • Search by query (full text) or title (title, short title, or abbreviation such as "DSG"). scope is federal (default) or a Bundesland, municipality switches a state scope to municipal law, and language: english searches the ~138 English translations
  • in_force_as_of defaults to today in Austria and is echoed as appliedInForceAsOf; include_all_versions and the entered_force_* / left_force_* windows are mutually exclusive alternatives
  • Records carry law_id (filter on it for every section of a law), section_label, abbreviation, keywords, in-force dates, eli, celex_references, and content_urls

ris_search_case_law tool

  • court is required, one code per call. Filter by query, cited norm ("DSG §1"), case_number, decided_from/decided_to, and decision_type (headnote, full_text, or all, the default). Court-specific filters include court_name (justiz), state (lvwg/uvs), and collection_number (vfgh/vwgh/uvs); one sent to the wrong court fails as court_filter_mismatch
  • Records carry case_numbers (a headnote lists every decision it covers), decision_date, ecli, norms_cited, and guiding_principle on headnotes
  • court: normenliste returns indexed laws under norm_index instead of decisions

ris_search_gazette tool

  • scope is federal (default), a Bundesland, district, or municipal. Filter by number, part, type, published_from/published_to, issuer, district_authority, or municipality; state scopes also take series and state_era
  • Federal queries are served from one era (BgblAuth 2004+, BgblPdf 1945–2003, BgblAlt 1848–1940), echoed as servedApplication; a date range spanning two eras fails as cross_tier_range with the dates to split at
  • Records carry binding (authentic, historical_record, consolidated_informational), authentic_pdf_url where one exists, alex_url (ÖNB scan) for 1848–1940, celex_references where applicable, and promulgation on federal entries from 1848–2003

ris_search_drafts tool

  • stage is required: review_drafts (with in_review_on) or government_bills (2004+, with decided_from/decided_to); ministry accepts an abbreviation such as "BMF" or a full designation
  • Records carry review_start and review_deadline or decided, abbreviation and keywords where RIS supplies them, plus materials[] (Erläuterungen, Textgegenüberstellung, Vorblatt/WFA, annexes) classified by type. Pass a materials[].url to ris_get_document to read one

ris_search_announcements tool

  • collection is required: social_insurance, veterinary, court_rules, trade_exam_rules, health_structure_plans, ministerial_decrees, or council_minutes. A filter its collection doesn't accept fails as collection_filter_mismatch, including changed_since on social_insurance and veterinary. issuer expands ministry ("BMF") and social-insurance carrier ("ÖGK") abbreviations
  • Records carry binding (authentic, administrative_directive, or preparatory), authentic_pdf_url, and document_url, the only browsable view of council minutes and decrees
  • Each collection adds its own metadata where RIS supplies it, such as case_numbers, in_force_from/in_force_until, keywords, court_name, plan_state, and session_number

ris_lookup_citation tool

  • One citation per call, classified as a norm ("§ 6 DSG"), gazette number ("BGBl. I Nr. 165/1999"), case number ("VfGH G 13/2025") or ECLI, or collection number ("VfSlg 19.632/2012"). kind forces a route, court and state narrow it, and in_force_as_of pins a norm's version (default today)
  • Returns found, kind, and a record in the matching search tool's shape, with alternatives_count when several documents matched. A miss returns found: false with guidance instead of an error
  • A norm resolves to the cited law:
    • the law is matched as RIS files it ("§ 2 EStG" → EStG 1988 § 2; "AlVG 1977" → the AlVG, filed without its year; "VwGVG 2014 §28" → VwGVG § 28), and a long title is read by its short form ("StaatsanwaltschaftsG - StAG §35" → StAG § 35)
    • sub-provisions and a trailing ";" are set aside ("Art. 6 (1) B-VG" → B-VG Art 6), and an ordinal-led abbreviation reads like any other ("1. COVID-19-JuBG §1")
    • a cited version is set aside ("ABGB idF BGBl I 2010/28 §988" → ABGB § 988 as in force on the requested date, never the amending act's gazette entry), with a note saying the cited version was not applied
    • an entry citing several provisions ("DSG §1, §24", "ZPO §179. ZPO §275 Abs2") resolves the first and names the rest
  • An EU act RIS does not consolidate ("DSGVO Art32", "RL 2006/123/EG", "VO (EG) 178/2002 Art3") returns found: false with its EUR-Lex link, without a RIS request
  • A gazette number without its part ("BGBl. Nr. 50/2025") comes back ambiguous, naming parts I, II, and III

ris_get_document tool

  • Address by document_number + application, or by a document_url from content_urls or a draft's materials[].url; format is markdown (default), html, xml, or urls_only
  • Every result carries binding_status and authentic_pdf_url where one exists. Where a PDF is the only rendition (district and municipal promulgations, court rules, party-transparency decisions, council minutes, and draft companions filed without HTML), markdown returns the text extracted from it: plain text with a --- Page N of M --- line before each page, text_source: pdf, and a notice naming the PDF. A scanned PDF with no text layer, one over 16 MiB, or one that cannot be fetched in time returns a notice with the usable URL instead of failing, as do html and xml there and the 1848–1940 gazettes, which have no PDF to read
  • Markdown writes image references as absolute URLs on the content host. A rendition that is nothing but page images reads its PDF's text, and keeps the image URLs with a notice when the PDF has none
  • Markdown over 40,000 bytes returns kind: outline; re-call with sections to fetch entries. html and xml over 40,000 bytes return kind: link with byte_size and content_urls, so read with markdown

ris_track_changes tool

  • application (any of the 39 codes) plus changed_from/changed_to; include_deleted adds removals, which no other tool reports
  • Records carry changed, published, and binding_status; deletions set deleted: true with deleted_at
  • Law rows carry section_label, law_id, and in_force_from/in_force_until (no end date is not the same as in force now), and decision rows carry case_numbers and decision_date

ris_list_reference tool

  • topic selects one of 17 static tables: applications, courts, states, decision types and kinds, issuing bodies, ministries, collections, stages, changed-since intervals, section types, gazette parts, law types, district authorities, justiz subject areas, search syntax, and citation formats
  • Returns summary and entries (value, label, details) with no upstream call

ris://document/{application}/{documentNumber} resource

  • text/markdown of one document, addressed by application + documentNumber from a search or lookup result; same content as ris_get_document with format: markdown
  • Applications that publish only a PDF return its extracted text in a fenced block with a note naming the PDF; the 1848–1940 gazettes and a PDF with no extractable text return a note pointing at the PDF or scan. Oversized text returns the outline, so use the tool to fetch an entry

Features

Built on @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core: stdio and Streamable HTTP transports, pluggable auth (none / jwt / oauth), swappable storage (in-memory, filesystem, Supabase, Cloudflare KV/R2/D1), structured logging with optional OpenTelemetry tracing.

RIS-specific:

  • All 39 OGD applications: consolidated law, federal, state, district, and municipal gazettes, 17 court and tribunal collections, the lawmaking pipeline, and sectoral announcements
  • Citations resolve through exact filters (section plus title, gazette number, Geschäftszahl, Sammlungsnummer) rather than keyword search
  • Dates are YYYY-MM-DD; search tools page with page and page_size (1–100, served as pages of 10 or 20; default 20); omit a text filter rather than sending it blank
  • Court, application, state, and ministry codes come from ris_list_reference
  • Tool descriptions are English; titles, field values, and RIS error messages stay German

Agent-friendly output:

  • Every record carries a typed binding status (authentic, consolidated_informational, historical_record, decision, preparatory, administrative_directive, translation)
  • Paged results report totalCount and truncated and echo what the server applied, such as appliedInForceAsOf and servedApplication
  • Typed error reasons (court_filter_mismatch, cross_tier_range, invalid_query, document_not_found, …) and zero-hit notices name the next call

Getting started

Connect to the hosted instance, no install:

sh
claude mcp add --transport http ris-austria-mcp-server https://ris-austria.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Or run it locally:

sh
claude mcp add ris-austria-mcp-server -- npx -y @cyanheads/ris-austria-mcp-server

For other clients, add this to the MCP config file:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "ris-austria-mcp-server": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "@cyanheads/ris-austria-mcp-server"]    }  }}

No API key is needed. For Docker or a source build, see Running the server.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionDefault
RIS_API_BASE_URLRIS OGD REST API base URL.https://data.bka.gv.at/ris/api/v2.6
RIS_CONTENT_BASE_URLDocument content host that rendition URLs are built on and documents are fetched from. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at answers automated clients with a bot-check page.https://ogd.ris.bka.gv.at
RIS_CONTACTContact string appended to the User-Agent.none
MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPETransport: stdio or http.stdio
MCP_HTTP_PORTHTTP server port.3010
MCP_SESSION_MODEHTTP session mode: stateless, stateful, or auto.stateless
MCP_AUTH_MODEAuthentication: none, jwt, or oauth.none
MCP_LOG_LEVELLog level (debug, info, warning, error, etc.).info
OTEL_ENABLEDEnable OpenTelemetry.false

See .env.example for the full list of optional overrides.

Running the server

Local development

Requires Bun v1.4.0 or higher (or Node.js v24+).

  • Clone and install:

    sh
    git clone https://github.com/cyanheads/ris-austria-mcp-server.gitcd ris-austria-mcp-server && bun install
  • Build and run:

    sh
    # One-time buildbun run rebuild
    # Run the built serverbun run start:stdio# orbun run start:http
  • Run checks and tests:

    sh
    bun run devcheck   # Lint, format, typecheck, securitybun run test       # Vitest test suitebun run lint:mcp   # Validate MCP definitions against spec

Docker

sh
docker run --rm -p 3010:3010 ghcr.io/cyanheads/ris-austria-mcp-server:latest

The image defaults to HTTP transport, stateless session mode, and logs to /var/log/ris-austria-mcp-server. To run it over stdio from an MCP client, use "command": "docker" with "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE=stdio", "ghcr.io/cyanheads/ris-austria-mcp-server:latest"]. To build locally, docker build -t ris-austria-mcp-server .; OpenTelemetry peer dependencies are installed by default — build with --build-arg OTEL_ENABLED=false to omit them.

Project structure

DirectoryPurpose
src/index.tscreateApp() entry point — registers tools and resources.
src/configOptional RIS endpoint and contact configuration, parsed with Zod.
src/mcp-server/toolsTool definitions (*.tool.ts).
src/mcp-server/resourcesResource definitions (*.resource.ts).
src/services/risRIS request building, HTTP access, normalization, and static reference data.
docs/design.mdDesign notes: tool surface, service spec, live-confirmed RIS API reference.
tests/Unit and integration tests mirroring src/.
framework-skills/Development skills synced from @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core.

Development guide

See CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md for development guidelines and architectural rules. The short version:

  • Handlers throw, framework catches — no try/catch in tool logic
  • Use ctx.log for request-scoped logging, ctx.state for tenant-scoped storage
  • Register new tools and resources via createApp() in src/index.ts
  • Wrap the RIS API: validate raw → normalize to domain type → return output schema; never fabricate missing fields

Contributing

Issues are welcome. Run checks and tests before submitting:

sh
bun run devcheckbun run test

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE for details.

RIS OGD data is CC BY 4.0 (attribution: RIS, Bundeskanzleramt Österreich). The underlying legal texts are copyright-free official works. Only the authentic, amtssignierte gazette wording is legally binding — consolidated RIS text is informational.

Source: README.md at commit 36f3af9

Tools

9

ris_search_legislation

Search Austrian Legislation

Search Austrian consolidated law and English translations: federal law (scope: federal, the default), one Bundesland (scope: burgenland … wien), municipal law (municipality plus a state scope — selected norms in 6 Bundesländer), or English translations of selected federal laws (language: english, federal only, ~138 documents). One document is one § / Artikel / Anlage; fetch a whole law by filtering law_id. Searches apply the version in force today in Austria by default — set in_force_as_of for another date, include_all_versions: true for full version history, or an entered_force / left_force window for new-law and repeal tracking; the three version filters are mutually exclusive, and the applied date is echoed back in the result. query is full text (boolean UND/ODER/NICHT or AND/OR/NOT, trailing-only * wildcard); title matches title, short title, and abbreviation ("DSG"). For a specific citation like "§ 6 DSG", ris_lookup_citation resolves it deterministically instead. Consolidated text is informational, not legally binding — the authentic gazette artifact lives in ris_search_gazette.

Parameterspageindexqueryscopetitlelaw_idsort_bylanguagepage_sizesection_tomunicipalitysection_from+9 more

ris_search_case_law

Search Austrian Case Law

Search Austrian case law (Judikatur) in ONE court or tribunal per call — court is required: vfgh (Constitutional Court), vwgh (Supreme Administrative Court), justiz (ordinary courts incl. OGH, selected decisions), bvwg (federal administrative), lvwg (state administrative), dsk (data protection authority), normenliste (VwGH norm index), dok, pvak, gbk, verg, upts (party transparency), and the historical uvs, asylgh, ubas, umse, bks. Cross-court research is one call per court (calls are cheap); historical bodies are closed windows with successors — codes, windows, and Geschäftszahl examples: ris_list_reference topic courts. Filter by full-text query, cited norm ("DSG §1", "DSGVO Art32" — the highest-value filter), exact case_number (Geschäftszahl), decision date range, decision_type (headnote vs full text), decision_kind, or the court-conditional filters: issuing_body (dsk/dok/pvak/verg), court_name/legal_area/subject_area (justiz), state (lvwg/uvs), party (upts), commission/senate/discrimination_ground (gbk), subject_law (bks), collection_number (vfgh/vwgh/uvs). For a known Geschäftszahl, ECLI, or VfSlg/VwSlg cite, ris_lookup_citation resolves it directly.

Parametersnormpagecourtrequiredpartyquerystatesenatesort_bypage_sizecommissioncourt_namedecided_to+12 more

ris_search_gazette

Search Austrian Gazettes

Browse Austria’s promulgation record — the authentic, legally binding gazettes — at every level of government. scope picks the jurisdiction: federal (default; the Bundesgesetzblatt across three era tiers auto-routed by year — BgblAuth 2004+ authentic, BgblPdf 1945–2003, BgblAlt 1848–1940 metadata-only ÖNB scans; one call serves one tier, so a published_from/published_to interval crossing 2004-01-01 or 1945-01-01 is rejected with the boundaries to split at, and RIS carries no federal gazette for 1941–1944), one Bundesland (its Landesgesetzblatt), district (Bezirke promulgations), or municipal (Gemeinde promulgations). For a state scope, series selects law gazettes (law_gazette, the default → LGBl) vs ordinance gazettes (ordinance_gazette → Verordnungsblätter, currently Tirol only), and state_era picks which era of that series to search: current (the default → the authentic LGBl) or legacy (the state’s earlier non-authentic series — Niederösterreich’s systematic LgblNO, or the older Lgbl elsewhere; Wien carries neither, and ordinance gazettes have no legacy series). Filter by query (full text), title, number ("171/2026" — a pre-2004 number auto-routes to the right era tier), part (federal I/II/III or pre_1997), type (laws/regulations/announcements/other), published_from/to, issuer (federal or ordinance gazettes only), district_authority (district only), or municipality (municipal only). Every result carries a binding label (authentic vs historical_record vs consolidated_informational) and the amtssigniert authentic PDF wherever it exists — the binding artifact, never a paraphrase. For one known gazette number, ris_lookup_citation resolves it directly. Coverage windows, era tiers, and part semantics: ris_list_reference topic applications or gazette_parts.

Parameterspageparttypequeryscopetitleissuernumberseriessort_bypage_sizestate_era+5 more

ris_search_drafts

Search Draft Legislation

Search Austria’s federal lawmaking pipeline BEFORE promulgation — the monitoring counterpart to ris_search_gazette (what will become law). stage selects the phase: review_drafts (Begutachtungsentwürfe — draft laws a ministry has put into public review, before any government bill exists) or government_bills (Regierungsvorlagen — bills the council of ministers adopted and submitted to parliament, 2004+). Filter by query (full text), title, ministry (accepts an abbreviation like "BMF" — expanded to RIS’s exact designation; the historical name at submission time counts), in_review_on (review_drafts only — drafts whose review window covers the date; today = "what is in Begutachtung right now"), or decided_from/to (government_bills only — council adoption date). changed_since gives coarse recency. Each record carries materials — the companion documents filed with the draft (Erläuterungen, Textgegenüberstellung, Vorblatt/WFA, covering letter, annexes); the Erläuterungen carry the drafting reasoning the bill text omits, and passing a materials[].url to ris_get_document as document_url is the only way to read one (format there picks the rendition returned). Documents are preparatory, not binding law. Ministry codes: ris_list_reference topic ministries.

Parameterspagequerystagerequiredtitlesort_byministrypage_sizedecided_todecided_fromin_review_onchanged_sincesort_direction

ris_search_announcements

Search Official Announcements

Search Austria’s sectoral official gazettes and executive documents — seven collections behind one collection enum: social_insurance (Amtliche Verlautbarungen der Sozialversicherung, authentic), veterinary (Amtliche Veterinärnachrichten, authentic), court_rules (Kundmachungen der Gerichte — rules of procedure and case-allocation plans, authentic; currently LVwG Tirol and Vorarlberg only), trade_exam_rules (Prüfungsordnungen gemäß Gewerbeordnung, authentic), health_structure_plans (Strukturpläne Gesundheit — federal ÖSG and per-state RSG, authentic), ministerial_decrees (Erlässe der Bundesministerien — decrees interpreting law; bind the administration, not citizens), and council_minutes (Ministerratsprotokolle — council-of-ministers session records). Each collection accepts a different filter set: query and title are broadly available; number, published_from/to, in_force_as_of, issuer (ministry and social-insurance carrier abbreviations expanded), norm ("decrees citing the DSG"), case_number, type, department, plan_type/plan_state (health plans), session_number/legislature (council minutes), and changed_since (all but social_insurance and veterinary) apply where the collection supports them — a filter outside its set is rejected locally. Every result carries a binding label, the authentic PDF where it exists, and the RIS web view (document_url) — the only browsable surface for the PDF-only council minutes and for ministerial decrees. Per-collection parameter matrix and issuers: ris_list_reference topic collections or issuing_bodies.

Parametersnormpagetypequerytitleissuernumbersort_bypage_sizeplan_typecollectionrequireddepartment+11 more

ris_lookup_citation

Resolve Austrian Legal Citation

Resolve a single Austrian legal citation to its canonical RIS document deterministically — no keyword search. Four routes are auto-detected from the citation shape (or forced with kind): a norm citation — section-first ("§ 6 DSG", "Art 10 B-VG"), abbreviation-first ("DSG §1", "EMRK Art8", the shape ris_search_case_law returns in norms_cited; a comma-joined entry like "DSG §1, §24", or one joining full norms with ". " like "ZPO §179. ZPO §275 Abs2", resolves its first provision and names the rest), or a bare abbreviation like "ABGB" or "1. COVID-19-JuBG", with sub-provisions (Abs, Z, lit, "(1)"), the version a law is cited in ("ABGB idF 2. ErwSchG §254", "ABGB aF §140"), and a terminal ";" dropped, and a long title read by its short form after the dash ("StaatsanwaltschaftsG - StAG §35") — resolves through consolidated federal law, or a Bundesland with a state hint, as in force today or on in_force_as_of, while an EU act RIS does not consolidate (DSGVO, the Charter, EuGVVO, the EC Treaty as EG, EGV, or EG-Vertrag), or an EU act cited by its number ("RL 2006/123/EG", "VO (EG) 178/2002"), returns found: false pointing to EUR-Lex without a search; a gazette citation ("BGBl. I Nr. 165/1999", year-first "BGBl I 2018/24", pre-2004 "BGBl. Nr. 194/1961", imperial "RGBl. Nr. 189/1902", "StGBl. Nr. 1/1945", or "LGBl. Nr. 61/2026" with a state hint) routes to the right federal era tier by year — the 1945 Staatsgesetzblatt sits in the 1945–2003 tier beside the BGBl. — or to a state Landesgesetzblatt — falling back to that Bundesland’s pre-e-Recht series when the citation predates its switch; a case number ("Ro 2026/03/0016", "G 287/2022", "14Os49/26a", "2025-0.934.677", "W256 …") is matched to its court — a leading VfGH, VwGH, OGH, BVwG, or DSB names it ("VfGH G 13/2025"), court skips detection, and ambiguous formats probe up to two courts; an ECLI ("ECLI:AT:VFGH:2026:G13.2025") resolves to the decision that carries it; a collection number ("VfSlg 19.632/2012", "VwSlg 18.000 A/2

Parameterskindcourtstatecitationrequiredin_force_as_of

ris_get_document

Get RIS Document

Fetch one RIS document’s full text or its rendition URLs, with explicit binding status and the amtssigniert authentic PDF surfaced wherever it exists. Address the document exactly one of two ways: document_number plus application (both copied verbatim from a ris_search_* or ris_lookup_citation result), or a document_url from a result’s content_urls — or, for a draft’s companion documents (Erläuterungen, Textgegenüberstellung, WFA, cover letter, annexes), a ris_search_drafts record’s materials[].url, which is the only route to them. format: markdown (default — the HTML rendition converted to markdown, or the PDF’s extracted text where a PDF is the only rendition), html (raw HTML rendition), xml (the RIS Nutzdaten XML), or urls_only (no fetch — every rendition URL, including the Authentisch PDF). Format availability varies by application and the tool degrades explicitly, never silently: consolidated law, gazettes, case law, drafts, and most sectoral collections carry full text; district and municipal promulgations and court rules (Bvb, GrA, KmGer) publish only the signed authentic PDF; party-transparency decisions and council minutes (Upts, Mrp) are PDF-only; the 1848–1940 imperial gazettes (BgblAlt) are metadata-only. Where a PDF is the only rendition — those PDF-only and authentic-PDF-only applications, and a draft companion filed with no html twin — markdown returns the text extracted from it (text_source: pdf, a "--- Page N of M ---" line before each page, a notice naming the PDF); for an authentic application the signed PDF stays the binding artifact to cite. html and xml there, every format on BgblAlt, and a PDF whose text cannot be extracted (a scan with no text layer — no OCR is performed — or an oversized, unreadable, or unreachable file) return a format_unavailable notice with the usable URL, not an error. Every result carries binding_status; only authentic (amtssigniert) publications are legally binding. This tool returns content, not fresh metadata — the m

Parametersformatsectionsapplicationdocument_urldocument_number

ris_track_changes

Track RIS Changes

Track every document added or changed in one RIS application within an exact date window (changed_from/changed_to), optionally including deletions (include_deleted) — the delta-sync and monitoring primitive for mirrors and watchers, and the only surface that reports removals. Unlike the search tools’ coarse, additive-only changed_since intervals, this is exact-dated and deletion-aware. application accepts every RIS application code listed by ris_list_reference topic applications, including BrKons, LrKons, Dsk, and BgblAuth. Each changed document comes back in a compact cross-class record — document_number (for ris_get_document), title, the section_label, law_id, and in-force window (in_force_from/in_force_until) of a consolidated-law row or the case_numbers and decision_date of a court decision, dates, binding_status, and rendition URLs — plus its last-changed date; removed documents come back as deleted records with a deletion timestamp. One application per call; page explicitly for large windows.

Parameterspagepage_sizechanged_toapplicationrequiredchanged_frominclude_deleted

ris_list_reference

RIS Reference Lists

Ground the opaque German codes across the RIS surface — static and offline, no upstream call. Topics: applications (all 39, with coverage windows, binding status, and content formats), courts (17 codes with Geschäftszahl examples and successor mapping), states (the three Bundesland request spellings), decision_types, decision_kinds (per-court Entscheidungsart values), issuing_bodies (dsk/dok/pvak/verg bodies and social-insurance issuers), ministries (abbreviations and full designations, historical included), collections (the 7 announcement collections and their parameter matrix), stages (lawmaking pipeline), changed_since_intervals, section_types, gazette_parts (BGBl parts and era tiers), law_types, district_authorities (all Bezirksverwaltungsbehörden), justiz_subject_areas (Fachgebiet taxonomy), search_syntax (operators and wildcard rules), and citation_formats (the shapes ris_lookup_citation parses). Recovery hints from the other ris_* tools route here.

Parameterstopicrequired

Version history

10
  1. v0.6.1LatestOct 31, 2026
  2. v0.6.0Oct 29, 2026
  3. v0.5.5Oct 25, 2026
  4. v0.5.4Oct 25, 2026
  5. v0.5.3Oct 24, 2026
  6. v0.5.2Oct 17, 2026
  7. v0.5.1Oct 8, 2026
  8. v0.5.0Sep 25, 2026
  9. v0.4.4Sep 19, 2026
  10. v0.4.3Sep 16, 2026

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