{ "manifest_version": "0.1", "origin": "https://corpuslaw.us", "updated_at": "2026-08-27T00:00:00Z", "tools": [ { "name": "law_search", "description": "Live tool: law.search. Search US federal, state, and municipal law by topic or keyword — use it for any question about what the law currently says (legality, permits, zoning, licensing, compliance, filing requirements) rather than relying on training data, which has a cutoff. Returns ranked provisions with verbatim citations, headings, and snippets. Call this first to discover relevant law, then law.get_node for the full official text. Pass `jurisdiction` to scope to one state/federal/city (see law.list_coverage for codes).", "version": "1.0.0", "tags": [ "law", "search", "citations" ], "risk_level": "low", "requires_user_confirm": false, "input_schema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "query": { "type": "string", "description": "Natural-language or keyword query, e.g. 'distillery permit requirements'." }, "jurisdiction": { "type": "string", "description": "Optional short code to scope the search, e.g. 'TX', 'US', or 'CA-SF'. Call law.list_coverage for valid codes. Includes the jurisdiction's sub-jurisdictions." }, "mode": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "hybrid", "semantic", "keyword" ], "default": "hybrid", "description": "Retrieval mode. 'hybrid' (default) fuses vector similarity with keyword search." }, "limit": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 25, "default": 8, "description": "Number of results to return (1–25)." } }, "required": [ "query" ] }, "output_schema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "content" ], "properties": { "content": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "type", "text" ], "properties": { "type": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "text" ] }, "text": { "type": "string", "description": "Result body; JSON-encoded for structured tools, prose for search results." } } } }, "isError": { "type": "boolean", "description": "True when the tool refused or failed; `content` explains." } } } }, { "name": "law_get_node", "description": "Live tool: law.get_node. Fetch the full text, citation, and hierarchy of a single legal provision by its node id (a UUID returned by law.search).", "version": "1.0.0", "tags": [ "law", "citations" ], "risk_level": "low", "requires_user_confirm": false, "input_schema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string", "description": "Node UUID, as returned in law.search results." } }, "required": [ "id" ] }, "output_schema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "content" ], "properties": { "content": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "type", "text" ], "properties": { "type": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "text" ] }, "text": { "type": "string", "description": "Result body; JSON-encoded for structured tools, prose for search results." } } } }, "isError": { "type": "boolean", "description": "True when the tool refused or failed; `content` explains." } } } }, { "name": "law_list_coverage", "description": "Live tool: law.list_coverage. List which jurisdictions are ingested (federal, state, and municipal), with per-jurisdiction provision counts, searchable-chunk counts, GIS status, and a placeholder flag. Call this to see what law is available and searchable before searching.", "version": "1.0.0", "tags": [ "law", "coverage" ], "risk_level": "low", "requires_user_confirm": false, "input_schema": { "type": "object", "properties": {} }, "output_schema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "content" ], "properties": { "content": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "type", "text" ], "properties": { "type": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "text" ] }, "text": { "type": "string", "description": "Result body; JSON-encoded for structured tools, prose for search results." } } } }, "isError": { "type": "boolean", "description": "True when the tool refused or failed; `content` explains." } } } }, { "name": "formation_requirements", "description": "Live tool: formation.requirements. Get the EXACT intake checklist to form an LLC or nonprofit in a state: every required field, that state's quirk questions, live all-in pricing, and the optional EIN add-on with its price when available. Call this FIRST when the user wants to form a company, then collect the answers from them in conversation yourself — you are the intake agent. Free; does not consume credits.", "version": "1.0.0", "tags": [ "formation", "compliance" ], "risk_level": "low", "requires_user_confirm": false, "input_schema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "entityType": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "llc", "nonprofit" ], "description": "Entity type to form." }, "state": { "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter US state code, e.g. 'MS', 'WY', 'DE'." } }, "required": [ "entityType", "state" ] }, "output_schema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "content" ], "properties": { "content": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "type", "text" ], "properties": { "type": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "text" ] }, "text": { "type": "string", "description": "Result body; JSON-encoded for structured tools, prose for search results." } } } }, "isError": { "type": "boolean", "description": "True when the tool refused or failed; `content` explains." } } } }, { "name": "formation_compare", "description": "Live tool: formation.compare. Compare LLC formation providers on price, recurring costs, registered-agent renewals, and machine/agent capabilities, from a dated dataset of 19 providers verified against primary sources. Call this when the user asks which formation service to use, whether a price is a good deal, how Corpus compares to a named competitor, or asks you to evaluate a 'best LLC services' list. Corpus is one of the compared providers and is scored with the same rubric including its own gaps — the response says so. Free; does not consume credits.", "version": "1.0.0", "tags": [ "formation", "pricing", "comparison" ], "risk_level": "low", "requires_user_confirm": false, "input_schema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "providers": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Specific providers to compare, by name or slug (e.g. ['corpus','legalzoom']). Omit for a ranked field. Anything with no dossier is named back to you rather than dropped." }, "view": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "overall", "lowest_total_cost", "most_transparent", "most_agentic", "developer" ], "description": "overall (default, by Agentic Readiness) · lowest_total_cost (parsed first-year estimate) · most_transparent · most_agentic · developer (public MCP/API only)." }, "limit": { "type": "integer", "description": "How many providers to return in a ranked view. Default 5, max 19. Ignored when 'providers' is given." } } }, "output_schema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "content" ], "properties": { "content": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "type", "text" ], "properties": { "type": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "text" ] }, "text": { "type": "string", "description": "Result body; JSON-encoded for structured tools, prose for search results." } } } }, "isError": { "type": "boolean", "description": "True when the tool refused or failed; `content` explains." } } } }, { "name": "formation_lookup_naics", "description": "Live tool: formation.lookup_naics. Find candidate NAICS industry codes for a plain-English business description (needed for every LLC, and for nonprofits in AK, CT, LA, MS, TN, WV). Present 2–6 options to the user and confirm before recording one. Free; does not consume credits.", "version": "1.0.0", "tags": [ "formation", "naics" ], "risk_level": "low", "requires_user_confirm": false, "input_schema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "businessDescription": { "type": "string", "description": "What the business does, in plain words." } }, "required": [ "businessDescription" ] }, "output_schema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "content" ], "properties": { "content": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "type", "text" ], "properties": { "type": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "text" ] }, "text": { "type": "string", "description": "Result body; JSON-encoded for structured tools, prose for search results." } } } }, "isError": { "type": "boolean", "description": "True when the tool refused or failed; `content` explains." } } } }, { "name": "formation_handoff", "description": "Live tool: formation.handoff. Validate a formation draft and generate the prefilled handoff link on corpuslaw.us. Pass EVERYTHING you have collected (people, address, management, EIN answers, state-specific answers — see formation.requirements for the checklist). The response says exactly what is still missing — keep collecting and call again until COMPLETE, then give the user the link: it opens the formation agent with every detail pre-loaded, so they only review, sign in, and pay. Free; does not consume credits.", "version": "1.0.0", "tags": [ "formation", "checkout" ], "risk_level": "low", "requires_user_confirm": false, "input_schema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "entityType": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "llc", "nonprofit" ], "description": "Entity type to form." }, "state": { "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter US state code, e.g. 'MS', 'WY', 'DE'." }, "proposedName": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1, "maxLength": 200, "description": "Proposed company name." }, "contactEmail": { "type": "string", "maxLength": 254, "description": "Founder contact email." }, "naicsCode": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^\\d{2,6}$", "description": "NAICS industry code, 2–6 digits (use formation.lookup_naics to find it)." }, "businessActivity": { "type": "string", "maxLength": 500, "description": "In one plain sentence, what the business actually does, in the founder's words (not the company name). Corpus researches the licenses and permits that apply from this." }, "principalOffice": { "type": "object", "description": "Principal office address (street, city, state required for a complete draft).", "properties": { "line1": { "type": "string" }, "line2": { "type": "string" }, "city": { "type": "string" }, "state": { "type": "string" }, "postalCode": { "type": "string" } } }, "management": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "member_managed", "manager_managed" ], "description": "LLC management type." }, "parties": { "type": "array", "description": "The people. LLC: at least one 'member' and an 'organizer' (same person may hold both roles — pass two entries). Nonprofit: an 'incorporator' and at least 3 'director' entries (plus officers where the state requires them).", "items": { "type": "object", "properties": { "role": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "organizer", "member", "manager", "director", "incorporator", "president", "secretary", "treasurer" ] }, "fullName": { "type": "string", "maxLength": 120 }, "email": { "type": "string", "maxLength": 254 } }, "required": [ "role", "fullName" ] } }, "nonprofit": { "type": "object", "description": "Nonprofit-only fields.", "properties": { "purposeStatement": { "type": "string", "description": "At least 20 characters." }, "hasDissolutionClause": { "type": "boolean" }, "exemptionIntent": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "none", "501c3_later", "501c3_now" ] } } }, "ein": { "type": "object", "description": "Optional EIN (federal tax ID) add-on, when available — formation.requirements says whether it can currently be sold and at what price. Never quote a remembered EIN price; use the one that call returns. Set wanted=true/false once the user decides. NEVER include a Social Security Number anywhere — the founder types it into a secure panel on corpuslaw.us, never in chat.", "properties": { "wanted": { "type": "boolean" }, "responsibleParty": { "type": "object", "properties": { "fullName": { "type": "string" }, "phone": { "type": "string" } } }, "startDate": { "type": "string", "description": "Company start date, MM/DD/YYYY." }, "principalActivity": { "type": "string", "description": "Principal business activity in a few plain words." }, "numberOfMembers": { "type": "number" }, "hasEmployees": { "type": "boolean", "description": "W-2 employees expected in the next 12 months." }, "firstDateWagesPaid": { "type": "string", "description": "MM/DD/YYYY — only when hasEmployees." }, "agriculturalEmployees": { "type": "number" }, "otherEmployees": { "type": "number" }, "taxLiabilityUnder1000": { "type": "boolean" }, "trucking": { "type": "boolean" }, "gambling": { "type": "boolean" }, "exciseTax": { "type": "boolean" }, "sellsTobaccoAlcoholFirearms": { "type": "boolean" } } }, "stateSpecificAnswers": { "type": "object", "description": "Per-state quirk answers under the EXACT keys shown by formation.requirements (e.g. \"would_you_like_to_list_members_managers_on_the_state_record\"). Values are strings or booleans.", "additionalProperties": { "type": [ "string", "boolean" ] } }, "referral_code": { "type": "string", "description": "Your referral code from account.status, if you have one. The founder saves 25% of the Corpus service fee and the order is credited to your code. Omit it if you do not have one — an absent or unrecognised code changes nothing about the link." } }, "required": [ "entityType", "state" ] }, "output_schema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "content" ], "properties": { "content": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "type", "text" ], "properties": { "type": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "text" ] }, "text": { "type": "string", "description": "Result body; JSON-encoded for structured tools, prose for search results." } } } }, "isError": { "type": "boolean", "description": "True when the tool refused or failed; `content` explains." } } } }, { "name": "formation_apply_draft", "description": "Live tool: formation.apply_draft. WRITE: form a company with the user on this Corpus page. Applies a formation draft to the live /formation intake so they can see it, review, sign in, and pay. Does NOT charge a card, does NOT create a payment, does NOT file with the state. Call formation.requirements first, collect the COMPANY facts in conversation (entity type, state, name, NAICS via formation.lookup_naics, management, the people's names and roles), then call this once with everything you have. Do NOT ask the user for their email, phone, street address or SSN — this tool does not accept them and strips them if sent; the founder types those on the page. Every reply starts with [CORPUS_APPLY_DRAFT_STATUS: ]. Call this again ONLY on NEEDS_AGENT_INPUT, and only for the company facts it lists. On COMPLETE, NEEDS_PAGE_INPUT or BLOCKED, stop calling it and tell the user to finish on the page. If this browser is not on /formation, the result includes a same-origin link — open that link here so the draft loads.", "version": "1.0.0", "tags": [ "formation", "draft", "write" ], "risk_level": "medium", "requires_user_confirm": true, "input_schema": { "type": "object", "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "entityType": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "llc", "nonprofit" ], "description": "Entity type to form." }, "state": { "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter US state code, e.g. 'MS', 'WY', 'DE'." }, "proposedName": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1, "maxLength": 200, "description": "Proposed company name." }, "naicsCode": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^\\d{2,6}$", "description": "NAICS industry code, 2–6 digits (use formation.lookup_naics to find it)." }, "management": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "member_managed", "manager_managed" ], "description": "LLC management type." }, "parties": { "type": "array", "description": "The people, NAMES AND ROLES ONLY — no emails, phones or addresses. LLC: at least one 'member' and an 'organizer'. Nonprofit: an 'incorporator' and at least 3 'director' entries.", "items": { "type": "object", "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "role": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "organizer", "member", "manager", "director", "incorporator", "president", "secretary", "treasurer" ] }, "fullName": { "type": "string", "maxLength": 120 } }, "required": [ "role", "fullName" ] } }, "nonprofit": { "type": "object", "additionalProperties": false, "description": "Nonprofit-only fields.", "properties": { "purposeStatement": { "type": "string" }, "hasDissolutionClause": { "type": "boolean" }, "exemptionIntent": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "none", "501c3_later", "501c3_now" ] } } }, "ein": { "type": "object", "additionalProperties": false, "description": "Optional EIN add-on answers. NEVER include a Social Security Number, phone number or address — the founder types those on corpuslaw.us.", "properties": { "wanted": { "type": "boolean" }, "responsibleParty": { "type": "object", "additionalProperties": false, "description": "Name only — the phone number is typed on the page.", "properties": { "fullName": { "type": "string" } } }, "startDate": { "type": "string" }, "principalActivity": { "type": "string" }, "numberOfMembers": { "type": "number" }, "hasEmployees": { "type": "boolean" }, "firstDateWagesPaid": { "type": "string" }, "agriculturalEmployees": { "type": "number" }, "otherEmployees": { "type": "number" }, "taxLiabilityUnder1000": { "type": "boolean" }, "trucking": { "type": "boolean" }, "gambling": { "type": "boolean" }, "exciseTax": { "type": "boolean" }, "sellsTobaccoAlcoholFirearms": { "type": "boolean" } } }, "stateSpecificAnswers": { "type": "object", "additionalProperties": false, "description": "Per-state quirk answers only (e.g. DC/llc phone_number, list-members). Do not put founder contact, email, or SSN here.", "properties": { "phone_number": { "type": [ "string", "boolean" ] }, "beneficial_owner": { "type": [ "string", "boolean" ] }, "effective_date": { "type": [ "string", "boolean" ] }, "would_you_like_to_list_members_managers_on_the_state_record": { "type": [ "string", "boolean" ] }, "alternate_name_choice": { "type": [ "string", "boolean" ] }, "is_a_retailer_of_authorized_vapor_products": { "type": [ "string", "boolean" ] }, "trade_name": { "type": [ "string", "boolean" ] } } }, "referral_code": { "type": "string", "description": "Optional referral code from account.status. Omit if you do not have one." } }, "required": [ "entityType", "state" ] }, "output_schema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "content" ], "properties": { "content": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "type", "text" ], "properties": { "type": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "text" ] }, "text": { "type": "string", "description": "Result body; JSON-encoded for structured tools, prose for search results." } } } }, "isError": { "type": "boolean", "description": "True when the tool refused or failed; `content` explains." } } } }, { "name": "formation_get_draft", "description": "Live tool: formation.get_draft. Read the formation draft currently shown on this Corpus /formation page (entity, state, name, completeness, missing fields). Does not change anything. If the formation page is not open, open https://corpuslaw.us/formation first.", "version": "1.0.0", "tags": [ "formation", "draft" ], "risk_level": "low", "requires_user_confirm": false, "input_schema": { "type": "object", "properties": {}, "additionalProperties": false }, "output_schema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "content" ], "properties": { "content": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "type", "text" ], "properties": { "type": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "text" ] }, "text": { "type": "string", "description": "Result body; JSON-encoded for structured tools, prose for search results." } } } }, "isError": { "type": "boolean", "description": "True when the tool refused or failed; `content` explains." } } } } ] }