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Live · Legal services

Dispatch litigation work from your AI assistant.

Published on Anthropic's MCP Registry. Connect your AI to Scope's legal-support tools to request work, review published prices, retrieve progress and documents, and inspect committed costs. Scope is live in limited release; service availability depends on professional coverage and each client connection needs its own setup and verification.

34 tools on the hosted connector. Open source. Install in Cowork, ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Claude Code, or any MCP-compatible AI client.

/plugin marketplace add github.com/scope-bid/scope-platform
/plugin install scope-legal@scope-bid

Stdio install →View on GitHub →View on npm →

What your AI assistant gains

The tools your AI calls.

The npm package ships seven core tools from @scope-bid/mcp-core (shared across all vertical MCPs) plus three legal-specific convenience tools. The hosted connector serves the full 33-tool surface; tools/list always returns the current list. Highlights:

scope_list_categories

core

List service categories (court reporting, records retrieval, social media evidence, expert witness, etc.) and which are API-native vs ops-backed.

scope_list_vendors

core

Return verified professionals with reputation snapshots: on-time %, budget variance, rework rate, completed matters, satisfaction.

scope_dispatch_matter

core

Post a matter. Quotes return in seconds from standing rate cards; an award parks as a pending approval until a person at the firm releases it, unless a pre-authorization covers it (a firm admin sets one for one service category, never a records category; it takes effect 24 hours after it is confirmed from a link Scope emails, by a different firm admin whenever the firm has more than one; it covers only a professional the firm's roster listed as primary or backup for that category when it was confirmed, shown by name to the admin who confirmed it, whose roster entry has not changed since, who did not set up their Scope account after it was confirmed, and who passes every check a dispatch runs; the most the job can settle at without another approval, the price plus 15 percent, must fit its per-job and per-period limits; it never covers an award on a matter where a professional declined or timed out; and it never applies while the firm has a spend ceiling set anywhere, on any dispatch policy or any person's own limits). Requires a token.

scope_get_matter

core

Look up a matter by display id (SC-2041) or UUID. Returns scope, quoted prices, award status.

scope_list_matters

core

List matters in flight for the calling buyer organization.

scope_book_deposition

legal

Convenience tool that wraps dispatch with court-reporting category + structured deposition fields (witness, date, location, video, real-time). Returns instant rate-card prices.

scope_request_records

legal

Convenience tool for ordering records retrieval. Wraps dispatch with records-retrieval category + structured custodian fields. Returns instant rate-card prices.

Example: dispatching a deposition from Claude

You: A deposition notice just came in for Smith v. Acme. Witness John Doe,
     scheduled for May 15 in San Diego, video and real-time required.
     Send this out to court reporting agencies with verified track records in CA.

Claude (calls scope_book_deposition):
  witness_name: "John Doe"
  date: "May 15"
  location: "San Diego, CA"
  video_required: true
  realtime_required: true
  case_caption: "Smith v. Acme"
  jurisdictions: ["CA"]

Scope returns:
  matter_id: "SC-2089"
  status: "open"
  vendors_notified: 7
  bid_window_closes: "2026-05-04T17:30:00Z"

You (60 min later): Summarize the prices with reputation scores.

Claude (calls scope_get_matter):
  ...4 named professional prices returned.
  Reputation snapshots side-by-side.

Try a tool call

Live console.

Pick a tool, fill the params, run. The request hits the same JSON-RPC transport your AI client uses. Demo bearer in use - real org tokens unlock real data.

Note: all read-only tools return seeded demo data. Write tools (dispatch, award, book) require real authentication.

Tool

Cross-vertical read. Returns your matter portfolio bucketed by action_required / awaiting_vendor / scheduled_this_week / recently_completed.

Horizon (days)

Demo bearer in use. Real org tokens unlock real data on the legal transport.

POST /api/mcp/legal (tool: scope_briefing)

// Click Run tool to send a JSON-RPC request to /api/mcp/legal

Install

Two minutes. Two steps.

The package is published on npm. npx installs and runs it on demand - no clone, no build step required.

Generate a Scope API token

The token authenticates writes (matter dispatch, deposition booking, records requests). Read-only tools work without one against demo matters.

a. Sign in at scope.bid/login (or sign up)
b. Open /settings → "MCP API tokens"
c. Click "+ New token", name it (e.g., "Claude Desktop"), generate
d. Copy the scope_pk_ token now - it's shown once

Add Scope to your MCP client

Claude Desktop (macOS)

Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json and add the scope entry:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scope": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@scope-bid/scope-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SCOPE_API_TOKEN": "scope_pk_paste_yours_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The Scope tools appear in the tools menu.

Claude Code or Cursor

Add an .mcp.json to your project root with the same JSON above.

Environment variables

Variable	Required	Notes
SCOPE_API_BASE	no	Defaults to https://scope.bid. Override for self-hosted.
SCOPE_API_TOKEN	for writes	Bearer token from /settings. Required for dispatch / book_deposition / request_records. Read tools work without on demo matters.
SCOPE_ORG_SLUG	no	Pin reads/writes to a specific buyer org. Useful for multi-tenant deployments.

Founding class

100 spots per category. Founding terms locked for 24 months. You keep every dollar of your published price.Scope's fee is the firm's line. $0 subscription.

Hand-picked, from any US metro. Firms dispatch matters to you through Scope from inside Claude and any other MCP-compatible AI tool they use.

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