INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

build_overview

Authority-ranked overview of a legal question or topic that LEADS with CJEU/EU-court case law and EDPB guidance, then national case law, with a verbatim quoted passage for the leading judgments.

overview.legalnone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://overview.legal/api/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for build_overview and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent server

overview.legal

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.overview-legal]
url = "https://overview.legal/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "overview-legal": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://overview.legal/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: overview-legal
Remote MCP URL: https://overview.legal/api/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "overview-legal": {
      "url": "https://overview.legal/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "overview-legal": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://overview.legal/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "overview-legal",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://overview.legal/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

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verify_quote — Anti-hallucination check against the corpus.
list_topics — Find topic slugs by name (English or Dutch) so you can call get_topic_context.
get_citations — Which documents a document cites and which cite it (law articles ↔ cases ↔ decisions).
get_topic_context — The full curated context bundle for a topic (editorial overview + key law text + case law + enforcement + guidance, cited) as one markdown document.
enforcement_stats — Filterable statistics and decisions from 3,300+ DPA fines: by GDPR article number, country, authority, year, minimum fine.