Ie Eli Mcp

io.github.matematicsolutionsPublished by GitHub account matematicsolutionsv0.3.3Updated Oct 24, 2026

MCP server for the Irish Statute Book: acts and SIs with verifiable ELI citations.

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Overview

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Grounds Irish acts and statutory instruments by year and number, returning metadata, full enacted text, and verifiable ELI citations.

What you can do
This server connects an assistant to the Irish Statute Book, the official source of Irish legislation. It offers tools to fetch metadata for an act or statutory instrument by year, number, and type, retrieve the full enacted text in HTML or XML, and report what the connector covers and what it does not. Every response includes an ELI URI, a human-readable citation, and a source URL for independent verification.
When to use it
Use it when you need to look up or quote Irish legislation and want citations that can be checked against the official source. It suits legal research, compliance work, or drafting that depends on the enacted text of Irish acts and statutory instruments.
Requirements
A local Python runtime; the package is published on PyPI and can be run with uvx or installed with pip. Optional environment variables IE_ELI_BASE_URL, IE_ELI_CACHE_DIR, and IE_ELI_AUDIT_DIR configure the source, cache, and audit locations. No API key is required, but network access to the Irish Statute Book is needed.
Before you install
The server is read-only against public legislation and sends no client data, but it writes an audit log line for every tool call to a local file. On Windows 11 with Smart App Control, unsigned launchers may be blocked; the README advises running through the signed Python interpreter rather than disabling that protection. Coverage is limited to enacted text by citation coordinates, and revised or consolidated versions are not included.

Installation

In SourceWeft

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

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

README

ie-eli-mcp

Install (one command)

Published on PyPI + MCP Registry (io.github.matematicsolutions/ie-eli-mcp). Run without cloning:

bash
uvx ie-eli-mcp

Configure your MCP client (stdio):

json
{ "mcpServers": { "ie-eli-mcp": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["ie-eli-mcp"] } } }

Windows 11 with Smart App Control

Smart App Control blocks unsigned executables, which covers uvx.exe, pip.exe and the ie-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 ie-eli-mcppython -m ie_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 ie_eli_mcp.

json
{ "mcpServers": { "ie-eli-mcp": { "command": "python", "args": ["-m", "ie_eli_mcp"] } } }

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

Building from source: see Install.

An MCP server for the Irish Statute Book (irishstatutebook.ie), the official source of Irish legislation. It grounds Irish acts and statutory instruments (SIs) by year + number, returning metadata and the full enacted text, with verifiable ELI identifiers and Irish citations.

Part of the MateMatic eu-legal-mcp production line - after PL, DE, AT, ES and FI. Same citation contract, Irish Statute Book source.

Scope. This MVP grounds the ENACTED text of acts and SIs by coordinates (year + number + type). The Irish Statute Book has no keyword-search API here, so discovery is by citation (Irish citations give the coordinates, e.g. "No. 7 of 2018"). Revised/consolidated versions are separate and not covered. Every response carries a dataset_note.

Licence. Irish Statute Book content is official public information. This connector relays it with attribution and a source_url.

The tools

ToolWhat it does
ie_get_actMetadata for an act or SI by year + number + type.
ie_get_textFull enacted text (html or xml).
ie_coverageDeclare 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 (e.g. https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2018/act/7/enacted/en), human_readable_citation (e.g. DATA PROTECTION ACT 2018 (No. 7 of 2018)), and source_url.

Install

bash
cd ie-eli-mcppip install -e .

Configure (Claude Code / any MCP client)

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "ie-eli-mcp": { "command": "ie-eli-mcp" }  }}

Environment:

  • IE_ELI_BASE_URL - default https://www.irishstatutebook.ie
  • IE_ELI_CACHE_DIR - default ~/.matematic/cache/ie-eli
  • IE_ELI_AUDIT_DIR - default ~/.matematic/audit

No API key.

Governance

  • Public data only - read-only against the Irish Statute Book; no client data leaves the machine.
  • Audit log - every tool call appends one JSON line to ~/.matematic/audit/ie-eli-mcp.jsonl.
  • Vendor-neutral - talks only to irishstatutebook.ie; no LLM provider, no telemetry.
  • Verifiable citations - every response is independently checkable via source_url.

See CONSTITUTION.md and DISCOVERY.md.

Tests

bash
pip install -e ".[dev]"pytest tests/test_instructions_drift.py -v   # offlinepytest tests/test_smoke.py -v                # hits live Irish Statute Book

Licence

Apache-2.0. © Matematic Solutions / Wieslaw Mazur.

Source: README.md at commit 198e27d

Tools

0
SourceWeft has not started this package in its sandbox yet, so its tools are not known.

Version history

1
  1. v0.3.3LatestSep 16, 2026

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