Legal KB Search

Problem to Solve

Legal provisions are scattered across different areas of law. When checking whether a clause applies, engineers often open statutes manually and compare clause numbers and context. The practical gap is not legal interpretation alone, but a scriptable, reusable search entry point: can you locate clauses by keyword and receive citable text, source, and category?

How It Works

legalkb turns legal retrieval into a text pipeline:
- Full-text search: search_law.py searches across 33+ laws, including the Civil Code, administrative law, social law, economic law, criminal law, procedural law, and constitution-related rules.
- Structured output: results include clause number, context snippet, and source annotation, emitted as UTF-8 plain text for downstream processing.
- Local fallback: if a configured directory exists, it can also search local PDF/DOCX files to cover gaps in the online dataset.
- No-result handling: when nothing is found, it states the coverage limit and suggests adding web_search.

Boundaries

This skill is useful for locating statutory text and recalling fragments, not for providing formal legal advice. Quality depends on the underlying just-laws data and its update frequency; for time-sensitive questions or judicial interpretations, verify against the original and current version.