# Lex-Ray

> Structured EU and UK legislation: public metadata, free sample articles, and entitled full text.

- name: law.lexray/lexray
- version: 1.0.0
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 83/100 flags: no-repository
- quality: 94/100 (strong)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/law.lexray%2Flexray
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/law.lexray%2Flexray/tools

**An agent can connect right now, no human step.** Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lexray": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://lexray.simmons-simmons.com/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
```


## Trust

- hygiene: 80
- liveness: 100
- freshness: 100
- provenance: 55
- drivers: +dns-namespace +website +reachable +uptime-100% +updated-13d-ago -no-repository
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 94/100 (strong)

### protocol: 100 (weight 25)

- pass `protocol.modern`: supports 2026-07-28 (server/discover)
- pass `protocol.stateless`: answers without a session
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- pass `protocol.list_ttl`: tool list is cacheable (ttlMs 300000)

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 86 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- pass `tools.annotations`: 3 of 3 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
- fail `tools.directory_hints`: no tool declares all four of readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint; missing: about_this_server (openWorldHint); search_instruments (openWorldHint); get_legislation (openWorldHint)
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 804 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: 100 (weight 15)

- pass `stability.changes`: no tool changes in 30 days
- pass `stability.rug_pull`: no tool changed its meaning under the same name

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 3, about 804 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: faefb3dd1784dfba8742561d549581e8
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/law.lexray/lexray.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/law.lexray/lexray)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

_No tool definition changes recorded._

## Remotes

- https://lexray.simmons-simmons.com/mcp/ (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 1)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (3)

- `about_this_server`: What this MCP server is, what each access tier includes, and how to obtain access. Call this first if you are unsure what the server offers, or after any tool refuses you — the refusal names a tier, and this tool explains what that tier costs and what it adds. Requires no credentials.
- `get_legislation`: Retrieve one act by CELEX ID, Lex-Ray ID, nickname, or uk-/eu- prefix. 'meta' is the bibliographic record (titles, dates, Official Journal reference, EuroVoc concepts, amendments and relationships to other acts) and needs no credentials. 'data' adds the parsed legal content — recitals, articles, annexes, definitions — and 'full' adds the rendered HTML. Every level carries a currency block: the day the answer was computed for, the commencement state on that day, and which version of the act is in force. Every answer also carries `pending_amendments`: proposals that propose to amend this act, each labelled in_flight / concluded / unknown, stamped with the reading date it was resolved against. These are PROPOSED, not enacted — never quote one as law.
- `search_instruments`: Find EU legislation and UK legislation by keyword, acronym (GDPR, DORA, AIA), the common name practitioners use ('Market Abuse Regulation', 'MLRs', 'UK GDPR'), CELEX ID or Lex-Ray id. Matching is case-insensitive and an exact name ranks ahead of partial title matches. Returns an envelope whose 'matches' array carries the bibliographic record for each match — titles, id, jurisdiction (eu/uk), Official Journal reference, dates — plus a currency block giving the commencement state as at today, so a match that is expired or not yet applying says so rather than reading as current law. When several instruments share the exact name searched, 'ambiguous' is true and 'disambiguation' lists them: choose by jurisdiction and title rather than taking the first. When a curated common name settles it, 'preferred' names that act and 'alternatives' the others sharing the name. Use this to resolve a name to an id before calling the other tools. Requires no credentials.