Installation¶

legal-peripherals-mcp is a standard Python package and a prebuilt container image. Pick the path that matches how you want to run it.

Requirements¶

Python 3.11 – 3.14.
Playwright browser binaries for the live Secretary of State crawlers (installed with playwright install); the fallback paths operate without them.

From PyPI (recommended)¶

pip install legal-peripherals-mcp

Optional extras¶

The base install is intentionally minimal. Install the extra for what you need:

Extra	Install	Pulls in
`mcp`	`pip install "legal-peripherals-mcp[mcp]"`	FastMCP MCP-server runtime (`agent-utilities[mcp]`)
`agent`	`pip install "legal-peripherals-mcp[agent]"`	Pydantic-AI agent server + Logfire tracing
`all`	`pip install "legal-peripherals-mcp[all]"`	Everything above
`test`	`pip install "legal-peripherals-mcp[test]"`	`pytest`, `pytest-asyncio`, `pytest-cov`, `pytest-xdist`

# Typical: run the MCP server and the agent server
pip install "legal-peripherals-mcp[all]"
playwright install chromium

From source¶

git clone https://github.com/Knuckles-Team/legal-peripherals-mcp.git
cd legal-peripherals-mcp
pip install -e ".[all]"          # editable install with every extra

With uv:

uv pip install -e ".[all]"
uv run legal-peripherals-mcp

Prebuilt Docker image¶

A multi-stage, slim image is published on every release (entrypoint legal-peripherals-mcp):

docker pull knucklessg1/legal-peripherals-mcp:latest

docker run --rm -i \
  -e SOSTOOL=True \
  -e EINTOOL=True \
  -e STATUTETOOL=True \
  knucklessg1/legal-peripherals-mcp:latest        # stdio transport (default)

For an HTTP server with a published port, see Deployment.

Verify the install¶

legal-peripherals-mcp --help
python -c "import legal_peripherals_mcp; print(legal_peripherals_mcp.__version__)"

Next steps¶

Deployment — run it as a long-lived MCP server behind Caddy + DNS.
Usage — call the tools, the API, and example prompts.
Configuration — every environment variable.