# GetLawED — Verified South African Law (remote · getlawed.co.za)

Search official South African law, quote the exact section and check case citations.

- Trust score: 68/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-17

## Components

- remote · `getlawed.co.za`: 68/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/za-co-getlawed-sa-law/api-mcp-law.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/za-co-getlawed-sa-law/api-mcp-law)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, 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 2026-10-17.

- **Endpoint Security**: 69/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 69/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 600 tokens (~200/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 10/100
  - Stability observed for 3 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 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the GetLawED — Verified South African Law MCP server?

GetLawED — Verified South African Law is a hosted endpoint at https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law, so there is nothing to install locally. 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 --transport http za-co-getlawed-sa-law 'https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "za-co-getlawed-sa-law": {
      "url": "https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "za-co-getlawed-sa-law": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.za-co-getlawed-sa-law]
url = "https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "za-co-getlawed-sa-law": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add za-co-getlawed-sa-law --url 'https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  za-co-getlawed-sa-law:
    url: "https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "za-co-getlawed-sa-law": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add za-co-getlawed-sa-law -t streamable-http -u 'https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "za-co-getlawed-sa-law": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## 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.

### 2026-10-17 (score 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-15 (score 67, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-14 (score 66)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `legal_library_search` (~195 tokens)

Search South African law

Search GetLawED's library of official South African legal texts (Constitutional Court, SCA, High Court, Labour, Land, Tax and tribunal judgments; Acts; regulations, rules and codes issued under them; municipal by-laws and land use schemes; Bills; Government Gazettes). Returns matching documents with the best-matching section reference where the text is split into sections, a short passage and the official source link. Absence from the library does not mean an authority does not exist.

Input parameters:

- `doc_type` (string): Limit to one kind of document: regulation = regulations, rules and codes; bylaw = municipal by-laws and land use schemes (default: judgment, act and regulation)
- `limit` (number): Maximum results, 1-10 (default 5)
- `query` (string, required): What to look for, in plain language (e.g. "business rescue post-commencement tax debt")

### `legal_get_section` (~127 tokens)

Read a section of South African law

Full text of one document section from the GetLawED library — use it to read and quote the exact provision found by legal_library_search (give the doc_id and the section reference it returned). For judgments, returns the judgment text (or the part matching "section", e.g. a paragraph number or phrase), capped at 12 000 characters.

Input parameters:

- `doc_id` (number, required): doc_id from legal_library_search
- `section` (string): Section reference as returned (e.g. "Section 34: Structures") or a section number like "34"; optional for judgments

### `legal_verify_citations` (~100 tokens)

Check South African citations

Check the South African case citations and Acts in a piece of text against GetLawED's library of official copies and verified records. Each item comes back as found, mismatch (the citation belongs to a different case), name_only, not_found, repealed or unchecked. "not_found"/"unchecked" means "check the law reports", not "fake".

Input parameters:

- `text` (string, required): The text containing citations (max 20 000 characters)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/za-co-getlawed-sa-law/api-mcp-law#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-17: 68
- 2026-10-16: 67
- 2026-10-15: 67
- 2026-10-14: 66

## Common questions

### What is the GetLawED — Verified South African Law MCP server?

GetLawED — Verified South African Law is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as za.co.getlawed/sa-law. Search official South African law, quote the exact section and check case citations. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law).

### Is the GetLawED — Verified South African Law MCP server safe to use?

GetLawED — Verified South African Law scores 68 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. 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 GetLawED — Verified South African Law MCP server expose?

GetLawED — Verified South African Law exposes 3 tools: legal_library_search, legal_get_section, legal_verify_citations. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 422 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the GetLawED — Verified South African Law MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to GetLawED — Verified South African Law without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the GetLawED — Verified South African Law MCP server still maintained?

GetLawED — Verified South African Law is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 17 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law
- Website: https://getlawed.co.za/law/developers/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/za-co-getlawed-sa-law/api-mcp-law.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/za-co-getlawed-sa-law/api-mcp-law.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/za-co-getlawed-sa-law/api-mcp-law