# Scotcourts (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts)

Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) — judgment search.

- Trust score: 78/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `gateway.pipeworx.io`: 70/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-scotcourts/scotcourts-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-scotcourts/scotcourts-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts`: 78/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-scotcourts/pipeworx-mcp-scotcourts.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-scotcourts/pipeworx-mcp-scotcourts)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts`
- Version: `0.2.1`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-scotcourts).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 0 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 58/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 707 tokens (~353/item across 2 items; 2 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability observed for 0 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 2 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the Scotcourts MCP server?

Scotcourts runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-scotcourts -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-scotcourts": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "pipeworx-io-scotcourts": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add pipeworx-io-scotcourts -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "pipeworx-io-scotcourts": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add pipeworx-io-scotcourts --command npx --arg -y --arg @pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  pipeworx-io-scotcourts:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-scotcourts": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add pipeworx-io-scotcourts -t stdio -c npx -a -y @pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-scotcourts": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 78)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (2)

### `search_scottish_judgments` (~434 tokens)

Search Scottish court and tribunal judgments from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS), published at scotcourts.gov.uk/judgments/ from 1999 onward: Court of Session, High Court of Justiciary, the National Personal Injury Court, Sheriff Appeal Courts, Sheriff Court civil/criminal, and the Scottish Upper Tribunal chambers. Returns title, court, judges, date and a document_link to the judgment PDF (fetch it with get_scottish_judgment). The `total` field is the true corpus match count (pagination.count.total upstream) — it is not the number of rows in this response, which is capped by `limit`. Coverage is whatever SCTS itself has chosen to publish on this index, not every decision ever made — sheriff court and tribunal coverage in particular is thin next to the higher courts. This is SCOTS law; England & Wales, UK Supreme Court and UK tribunal decisions are a different corpus (search_uk_caselaw).

Input parameters:

- `court` (string): Court or Chamber to narrow to. Must match one of: Court of Session, High Court of Justiciary, National Personal Injury Court, Sheriff Appeal Court Civil, Sheriff Appeal Court Criminal, Sheriff Court…
- `from_date` (string): Earliest date of opinion/decision, YYYY-MM-DD.
- `limit` (number): Judgments per page, 1-50 (default 20).
- `page` (number): Page number, 1-based (default 1).
- `query` (string): Free-text search over the judgment (e.g. a party name, a distinctive phrase, "negligence"). Optional — omit to browse by court/date alone.
- `to_date` (string): Latest date of opinion/decision, YYYY-MM-DD.

### `get_scottish_judgment` (~217 tokens)

Resolve a Scottish Courts judgment PDF and confirm it is actually reachable. Pass document_link exactly as returned by search_scottish_judgments (a relative /media/... path or absolute URL), or a case name / citation to look one up first. SCTS judgments are PDF-only — this tool returns the verified PDF URL, HTTP status, content-type and size, and text_extracted: false; it does NOT extract or return the judgment text (no PDF-text pipeline exists in this catalog). Fetch pdf_url to read the actual judgment.

Input parameters:

- `document_link` (string): The documentLink / document_link value from search_scottish_judgments, e.g. "/media/id5nvoe1/court-of-session-judgement-appeal-by-sca-against-mma-27-october-2020.pdf".
- `query` (string): Alternative to document_link: a case name or distinctive phrase to look up the judgment by, if you do not already have its document_link.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-scotcourts/pipeworx-mcp-scotcourts#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 78

## Common questions

### What is the Scotcourts MCP server?

Scotcourts is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/scotcourts. Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS), judgment search. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts).

### Is the Scotcourts MCP server safe to use?

Scotcourts scores 78 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Scotcourts MCP server expose?

Scotcourts exposes 2 tools: search_scottish_judgments, get_scottish_judgment. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 651 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Scotcourts MCP server still maintained?

Scotcourts is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the Scotcourts MCP server under?

Scotcourts declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the Scotcourts MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 15 checks on Scotcourts, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 11 more. One item could not be completed, a gap on our side rather than a finding about Scotcourts: Stability. One category scores 0 for that reason, because we only credit what we can confirm. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to an npm package, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-scotcourts
- Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-scotcourts
- Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/scotcourts
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-scotcourts/pipeworx-mcp-scotcourts.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-scotcourts/pipeworx-mcp-scotcourts/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-scotcourts/pipeworx-mcp-scotcourts.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-scotcourts/pipeworx-mcp-scotcourts