lawchat-oss/taiwan-legal-plugin

This is a plugin for Claude Code that connects the AI assistant directly to Taiwan's public legal databases, so it can look up court judgments and legal statutes from official government sources without a person having to search those databases by hand. It draws on the Judicial Yuan's judgment system for full text search of court decisions, and the national law database for more than 11,700 pieces of legislation. Constitutional court rulings and interpretations are planned for a later version and are not yet exposed through the plugin. Under the hood, the plugin connects through a separate open source MCP server that provides the actual data access. This version wraps two of that server's capabilities into ready to use skills: one for searching or retrieving full court judgments by case number or link, and one for looking up statutes by name, article number, or keyword. A third skill lets you run a one-time setup interview to set defaults like court level, date range, and citation style before your first real search. Every result comes back with the original source link and case or article number attached, and each skill's output ends with a note stating that it is not legal advice and that real legal decisions should go through a licensed lawyer. The plugin does not modify the original legal text, it only builds a structured access layer on top of data that Taiwan's Judicial Yuan and Ministry of Justice already publish under their own open data policies. Installing it takes two commands inside Claude Code to add the plugin marketplace and install the plugin, plus a separate pip install for the underlying MCP server. It is aimed at lawyers, law students, and legal researchers in Taiwan who want an AI assistant to pull real, citable legal source material instead of guessing from memory. The plugin's own code is released under the MIT license, while the underlying data stays governed by each government body's open data terms.