@pipeworx/it-normattiva
Italian national legislation — search, resolve an exact URN:NIR citation, and
read one article's original-language text as of any date (multivigenza),
with publication (Gazzetta Ufficiale) dates kept separate from emanation and
in-force dates.
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1815+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.
it_normattiva_search(query?, title?, act_type?, in_force_on?, emanation_date_from?, emanation_date_to?, publication_date_from?, publication_date_to?, limit?, offset?)
— search Italian national acts by full-text words, title words, official
act type (e.g. "LEGGE", "DECRETO LEGISLATIVO", "DECRETO-LEGGE",
"COSTITUZIONE", "REGOLAMENTO") and/or date range. Every result carries a
constructed urn field (act type, date and number -- e.g. urn:nir:stato:decreto.legislativo:2003-06-30;196)
that chains straight into the two tools below. Free-text query matching
is OR-across-words over the whole corpus, not an exact phrase — narrow with
title/act_type/dates for tight results.
it_normattiva_get_act(urn, as_of?, original?) — resolve an exact citation
(URN:NIR, e.g. "urn:nir:stato:decreto.legislativo:2003-06-30;196", the
Privacy Code) to its title, act type, emanation date, Gazzetta Ufficiale
publication date and the opening text (preamble through the start of
Article 1). as_of (YYYY-MM-DD) resolves the version in force on that date
(multivigenza); original: true returns the text as originally enacted.
it_normattiva_get_article(urn, article, annex?, as_of?, original?) — the
original-language text of one article (e.g. article: "1", "12-bis") of
an act, as of a given date. urn is the bare act citation (no article
suffix); annex selects an article inside an allegato instead of the main
body. Publication, emanation and in-force-from/until dates all come back as
separate fields, never folded together.
Both get_act and get_article return found: false with a message (and,
if the citation is genuinely ambiguous — most commonly the same act
republished across more than one Gazzetta Ufficiale supplement — a
candidates list) rather than an error, when nothing or more than one thing
resolves.
Auth
Keyless.
Data sources
- Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (IPZS), Normattiva Open Data —
Italy's official consolidated-law database (laws, decree-laws, legislative
decrees, the Constitution, regulations and other national acts), published
for the Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri. Every act is addressable
article by article via its URN:NIR citation and carries its full
multivigenza history — the text as amended, plus every historical version
with its own in-force window.
Notes
- Multivigenza, concretely: the upstream resolves a version by appending
a selector to the citation (
!vig=<date> for "in force on this date",
@originale for "as enacted") — this pack exposes those as as_of /
original rather than asking a caller to hand-build the suffix.
- Article 1's text usually includes the full preamble. Italian decrees
and laws place the enacting formula and every "VISTO .../VISTA ..." recital
before "Art. 1" in the same structural block the upstream returns, so
it_normattiva_get_article with article: "1" (and it_normattiva_get_act
with no article) can return a long block of preamble text ahead of the
article itself — that is the source's own structure, not truncation or
duplication on this pack's part.
act_type and the urn act-type segment are related but not spelled the
same. The URN segment joins the official label's words with dots and
turns a hyphen into a dot too ("DECRETO LEGISLATIVO" ->
"decreto.legislativo", "DECRETO-LEGGE" -> "decreto.legge"). Build URNs
from it_normattiva_search results rather than by hand where possible.
- Keyless, live proxy. One upstream request per tool call. Nothing from
Normattiva is baked into the pack or mirrored (the gateway bundle is near
its ceiling — see
docs/international-legal-scope.md).
Quick Start
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"it-normattiva": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/it-normattiva/mcp"
}
}
}
What this endpoint actually serves
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/it-normattiva/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed
directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1815+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
No MCP client? Call it over HTTP
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/it_normattiva_search \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"query":"protezione dei dati personali","act_type":"DECRETO LEGISLATIVO","limit":3}'
No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/it_normattiva_search. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.
Standalone (no gateway account)
This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no
gateway round-trip:
{
"mcpServers": {
"it-normattiva": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-it-normattiva"]
}
}
}
Or run it directly to confirm it starts:
npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-it-normattiva
It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call
for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway
connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.
Using with ask_pipeworx
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English —
this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about It Normattiva data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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License
MIT