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Free Law Project / CourtListener REST API — Citations

Free Law Project / CourtListener REST API — Citations. 1 operations. Lead operation: Lookup citations in text. Self-contained Naftiko capability covering one Free Law Project business surface.

Run with Naftiko Free Law ProjectCitations

What You Can Do

POST
Lookupcitations — Lookup citations in text
/v1/citation-lookup

MCP Tools

lookup-citations-text

Lookup citations in text

read-only

Capability Spec

free-law-project-citations.yaml Raw ↑
naftiko: 1.0.0-alpha2
info:
  label: Free Law Project / CourtListener REST API — Citations
  description: 'Free Law Project / CourtListener REST API — Citations. 1 operations. Lead operation: Lookup citations in text.
    Self-contained Naftiko capability covering one Free Law Project business surface.'
  tags:
  - Free Law Project
  - Citations
  created: '2026-05-19'
  modified: '2026-05-19'
binds:
- namespace: env
  keys:
    FREE_LAW_PROJECT_API_KEY: FREE_LAW_PROJECT_API_KEY
capability:
  consumes:
  - type: http
    namespace: free-law-project-citations
    baseUri: https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4
    description: Free Law Project / CourtListener REST API — Citations business capability. Self-contained, no shared references.
    resources:
    - name: citation-lookup
      path: /citation-lookup/
      operations:
      - name: lookupcitations
        method: POST
        description: Lookup citations in text
        outputRawFormat: json
        outputParameters:
        - name: result
          type: object
          value: $.
        inputParameters:
        - name: body
          in: body
          type: object
          description: Request body (JSON).
          required: false
    authentication:
      type: apikey
      key: Authorization
      value: '{{env.FREE_LAW_PROJECT_API_KEY}}'
      placement: header
  exposes:
  - type: rest
    namespace: free-law-project-citations-rest
    port: 8080
    description: REST adapter for Free Law Project / CourtListener REST API — Citations. One Spectral-compliant resource per
      consumed operation, prefixed with /v1.
    resources:
    - path: /v1/citation-lookup
      name: citation-lookup
      description: REST surface for citation-lookup.
      operations:
      - method: POST
        name: lookupcitations
        description: Lookup citations in text
        call: free-law-project-citations.lookupcitations
        with:
          body: rest.body
        outputParameters:
        - type: object
          mapping: $.
  - type: mcp
    namespace: free-law-project-citations-mcp
    port: 9090
    transport: http
    description: MCP adapter for Free Law Project / CourtListener REST API — Citations. One tool per consumed operation, routed
      inline through this capability's consumes block.
    tools:
    - name: lookup-citations-text
      description: Lookup citations in text
      hints:
        readOnly: true
        destructive: false
        idempotent: false
      call: free-law-project-citations.lookupcitations
      with:
        body: tools.body
      outputParameters:
      - type: object
        mapping: $.