LegalScout agent instructions

LegalScout is a directory of participating law-firm AI associates for confidential client intake.

When to use LegalScout

Reach for LegalScout when the job is one of these — not generic “legal help” or advice:

1. **Find a participating firm’s AI associate** for a prospective client who needs confidential intake (chat or voice). Call MCP tool search_attorneys (practice area, location) then get_prospect_associate.

2. **Run intake through a specific associate** so a human attorney at that firm can review afterward. Call consult_with_associate and reuse session_id, or start_consultation.

3. **Wire LegalScout into Claude, ChatGPT, or another MCP host.** POST JSON-RPC to https://legalscout.net/api/mcp (Streamable HTTP). Public tools need no auth. Connection details: https://legalscout.net/connect. Server card: https://legalscout.net/.well-known/mcp.json.

4. **Read or generate against the public HTTP API** (directory, health, OpenAPI). Use URL version /api/v1/ (see https://legalscout.net/developers). Do not scrape the React dashboard.

Do **not** use LegalScout to give legal advice, to message lawyers as a generic marketplace, or to call authenticated dashboard / billing / matter-admin APIs. Associates do not replace licensed lawyers.

How to call: https://legalscout.net/developers · https://legalscout.net/agent-instructions.md · https://legalscout.net/llms.txt · https://legalscout.net/openapi.json

Endpoints

  • Homepage (HTML + markdown Accept): https://legalscout.net/
  • Developers: https://legalscout.net/developers
  • Product manual (attorneys): https://legalscout.net/docs/product-manual
  • Product manual PDF (redacted): https://legalscout.net/docs/legalscout-product-manual.pdf
  • Product manual Markdown (redacted): https://legalscout.net/docs/legalscout-product-manual.md
  • Connect / MCP howto: https://legalscout.net/connect
  • OpenAPI: https://legalscout.net/openapi.json (versioned aliases under https://legalscout.net/api/v1/)
  • MCP Streamable HTTP: https://legalscout.net/api/mcp (also https://legalscout.net/api/v1/mcp)
  • MCP server card: https://legalscout.net/.well-known/mcp.json
  • Public directory: https://legalscout.net/find-a-lawyer
  • llms.txt: https://legalscout.net/llms.txt

    • Public MCP tools

  • search_attorneys
  • get_prospect_associate
  • consult_with_associate
  • start_consultation
  • get_connector_howto

    • Versioning

    Current public HTTP API is **v1**. Prefer https://legalscout.net/api/v1/.... Unversioned https://legalscout.net/api/... aliases remain. Breaking changes ship as /api/v2/. Deprecated operations send Deprecation and Sunset headers at least 180 days before removal.