Au Eli MCP

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by matematicsolutions · Python

MCP server for Australia's Federal Register of Legislation: search and cite Commonwealth Acts.

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au-eli-mcp

An MCP server for Australia's Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), the official source of Commonwealth legislation. It searches, fetches, and cites Acts, with a verifiable citation on every response.

Part of the MateMatic eu-legal-mcp production line, extended into Asia-Pacific alongside jp-eli-mcp, sg-eli-mcp and my-eli-mcp. Same citation contract (a stable identifier + a human-readable citation + a source URL), adapted for a jurisdiction with no ELI.

Scope. This MVP covers Acts only (collection(act)); regulations and other legislative instrument types are not yet covered. Discovery is by title (au_search_acts); fetch the current consolidated text with au_get_text (truncated for very large Acts). Every response carries a dataset_note.

Licence. Federal Register of Legislation content is official public information published by the Australian government. This connector relays it with attribution and a source_url.

The tools

Tool	What it does
`au_search_acts`	Search Commonwealth Acts by (partial) title.
`au_get_text`	The current consolidated text of an Act (truncated at ~300,000 characters).

Every response carries the contract: eli_uri (Australia has no ELI - this is the durable legislation.gov.au URL keyed on the document's own FRLI identifier, e.g. https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00042/latest, see eli_note), human_readable_citation (the Act title), and source_url.

Install

Not yet on PyPI - install from source until the first release ships:

bash

git clone https://github.com/matematicsolutions/au-eli-mcp
cd au-eli-mcp
pip install -e .

Once released, this will be uvx au-eli-mcp.

Configuration via env:

AU_ELI_BASE_URL - default https://www.legislation.gov.au
AU_ELI_CACHE_DIR - default ~/.matematic/cache/au-eli
AU_ELI_AUDIT_DIR - default ~/.matematic/audit

No API key. legislation.gov.au is keyless.

Configure (Claude Code / any MCP client)

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "au-eli-mcp": { "command": "au-eli-mcp" }
  }
}

Governance

Public data only - read-only against legislation.gov.au; no client data leaves the machine.
Robots-compliant - robots.txt allows crawling (only /assets/ is disallowed); this connector caches aggressively rather than hitting the site repeatedly.
Audit log - every tool call appends one JSON line to ~/.matematic/audit/au-eli-mcp.jsonl.
Vendor-neutral - talks only to legislation.gov.au; no LLM provider, no telemetry.
Verifiable citations - every response is independently checkable via source_url.

See CONSTITUTION.md and DISCOVERY.md.

Tests

bash

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest tests/test_instructions_drift.py -v   # offline
pytest tests/test_smoke.py -v                # hits live legislation.gov.au

Licence

Install

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claude_desktop_config.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "au-eli-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "au-eli-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}