Pro Se Engine

A powerful MCP (Model Context Protocol) server providing 39 legal research tools across 6 government APIs — designed for use with Pickaxe AI agents.

Built by ProjectCues.

🏛️ What It Does

Pro Se Engine gives AI agents access to:

Tool Categories

• Case Law — Search opinions, read full text, verify citations

• SEC Filings — Full-text search, company filings, XBRL financials

• Federal Legislation — Bills, bill text, Congress members

• Regulations — Federal Register rules, regulatory dockets, public comments

• Government Contracts — USAspending awards, contractor profiles

• Documents — Generate DOCX, extract text from PDF/DOCX, tracked changes editing

• Workflows — 13 structured legal analysis templates (M&A due diligence, lease abstracts, litigation assessment, etc.)

Related MCP server: Legal Court MCP Server

🚀 Quick Start

1. Install dependencies

npm install

2. Configure environment

cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your API keys

3. Run in development

npm run dev

4. Build for production

npm run build
node dist/index.js

The server starts on http://localhost:3001/mcp.

🔑 API Keys

SEC EDGAR, Federal Register, and USAspending.gov require no API keys.

🔗 Connecting to Pickaxe

1. Deploy this server to a public URL (e.g., Hostinger VPS)

2. In Pickaxe Agent Builder, add an MCP server

3. Set the endpoint URL to https://your-domain.com/mcp

4. If MCP_AUTH_TOKEN is set, configure the bearer token in Pickaxe

📋 13 Legal Workflow Templates

🏗️ Architecture

• Runtime: Node.js 20+

• Language: TypeScript (strict mode)

• Transport: Streamable HTTP (stateless — each request is independent)

• Framework: Express + @modelcontextprotocol/sdk

📄 License

MIT