Gadoes plugs Mike into the free case-law firehose

A new connector lets this fork pull real court opinions straight from CourtListener - no paid subscription, no API key required.

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Gadoes added a connector for CourtListener, the long-running free database of U.S. court opinions. It covers federal and state decisions going back decades, and because CourtListener offers a public tier, read-only searching works without any login or key - the fork passes credentials through only if you have them.

The work follows the same pattern Gadoes uses for every source they've wired in: a small configuration file plus a shared parser that turns each result into a clean case title, an excerpt, and a stable identifier. The handful of test cases run against realistic sample opinions, so the connector is small and self-contained enough to lift into another Mike setup that needs case-law search.

So what Anyone running Mike for legal research now has a route to primary-source case law without a vendor contract - worth a look for litigation and in-house teams watching costs.

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SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`0aff3c42`	feat(mcp): Chunk 10 - CourtListener MCP server config + fixture tests	Gadoes	2026-05-02	↗ GitHub
commit body Adds buildCourtListenerConfig, isValidCourtListenerKey, COURTLISTENER_TOOLS, and COURTLISTENER_SYSTEM_PROMPT. Includes fixture-based citation parser tests and mock MCP server integration tests (19 tests). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`5a7336c1`	Merge chunk-10-courtlistener into main	Gadoes	2026-05-02	↗ GitHub

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0aff3c42

feat(mcp): Chunk 10 - CourtListener MCP server config + fixture tests

Gadoes

2026-05-02

↗ GitHub

commit body

Adds buildCourtListenerConfig, isValidCourtListenerKey, COURTLISTENER_TOOLS,
and COURTLISTENER_SYSTEM_PROMPT. Includes fixture-based citation parser tests
and mock MCP server integration tests (19 tests).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

5a7336c1

Merge chunk-10-courtlistener into main

Gadoes

2026-05-02

↗ GitHub

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