Korean Assembly Speech MCP

Follow a Korean policy from bill status to the people, committees, and actual words behind it.

Korean & English queries · local-first · no paid API · FTS5 + E5 + FAISS · MCP + CLI

한국어 문서 · Architecture · Deployment · MCP clients · Data sources

Ask “Who raised concerns about sovereign AI?”, “What happened to bill 2200001?”, or “Show the subcommittee debate and the government's answers.” KASM traverses bill/agenda → status → committee/subcommittee → meeting → member → speech → surrounding Q&A. It combines official structured records with speech-level retrieval, acting as a small, evidence-first GraphRAG for legislative research.

Try it

The bundled demo is deliberately synthetic and clearly labeled. After package installation it proves the CLI and MCP contract without a key, model download, or upstream data call.

uvx korean-assembly-speech-mcp demo
uvx --from 'korean-assembly-speech-mcp[mcp]' kasm mcp

For a public deployment, an MCP client mounts one endpoint without credentials:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "korean-assembly": {"url": "https://YOUR_HOST/mcp"}
  }
}

The operator's Open Assembly key belongs only in a separate refresh job. It is never required by clients and is not present in the public search container.

Related MCP server: LexLink Korean Law MCP Server

Search and synchronize

# Search a configured local/prepared index
kasm search "AI 기본법에 대한 정부 측 답변" --committee 과학기술정보방송통신위원회 \
  --database kasm.sqlite3 --vector-index kasm-vectors.faiss

# Operator-only official synchronization
kasm sync --source committee --assembly-term 22 --month 2025-01 --ingest \
  --all-pages --max-meetings 100 --database kasm.sqlite3

# Bills/agendas and their current processing results
kasm sync-bills --assembly-term 22 --all-pages --database kasm.sqlite3

# Local multilingual E5 + FAISS index
kasm index --database kasm.sqlite3 --output kasm-vectors.faiss --backend faiss

# stdio or stateless Streamable HTTP
kasm mcp --database kasm.sqlite3 --vector-index kasm-vectors.faiss
kasm mcp --transport streamable-http --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000

Official synchronization uses only open.assembly.go.kr metadata and record.assembly.go.kr minutes. data.go.kr and third-party parliamentary datasets are out of scope. Set ASSEMBLY_OPEN_API_KEY only for kasm sync; raw caches, PDFs, .env, databases, and indexes are ignored by Git.

MCP tools

• explore_issue — one-query GraphRAG traversal across bills, committees, people and speeches

• search_bills — natural-language bill/agenda discovery with term, committee and status filters

• get_bill_status — current outcome plus connected debate evidence

• search_speeches — Korean/English policy-opinion retrieval with eight filters

• get_speech — full speech record and stable provenance

• get_speech_context — ordered surrounding speech turns

• list_committees — indexed committees and covered dates

• list_meetings — indexed meetings by committee, date, and type

Public clients need no Assembly key. The server operator uses a key only when producing refreshed SQLite/FAISS artifacts; clients query those prepared artifacts exactly like a public search index.

Measured gates

Checked-in scripts and artifacts make the results reproducible; synthetic evaluation data is explicitly labeled and never represented as Assembly speech text.

uv sync --extra dev --extra mcp --extra semantic
HF_HOME=.hf-cache uv run python scripts/evaluate_e5.py
HF_HOME=.hf-cache uv run python scripts/evaluate_hybrid.py
uv run python scripts/benchmark_fts.py
uv run ruff check . && uv run mypy && uv run pytest

Architecture and data integrity

Refresh and search are separate trust domains:

Open Assembly key → scheduled refresh → validated SQLite + FAISS artifacts
                                             ↓ atomic release
keyless MCP client → HTTPS /mcp → read-only prepared search artifacts

The fetcher allowlists the official minutes host, verifies PDF signatures, records SHA-256 and retrieval metadata, reports parser failures, and refuses mismatched vector metadata. The public ASGI service exposes /mcp and /healthz; mount /data read-only and rate-limit at ingress.

Development

Python 3.12 and 3.13 are tested in GitHub Actions.

uv sync --extra dev --extra mcp
uv run ruff check .
uv run mypy
uv run pytest --cov=kasm

See CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md, and the roadmap in SPEC.md.

License and records

Code is licensed under Apache-2.0. Parliamentary records and excerpts remain subject to their official source terms; source URLs and hashes are retained. The repository contains only small review fixtures, not the full parliamentary corpus. See DATA_LICENSE.md.