Boutique MCP server

boutique-mcp

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.matematicsolutions/boutique-mcp -->

A local MCP catalog of MateMatic Boutique: legal-data MCP connectors (SAOS, CBOSA, EUR-Lex, national ELI servers from Austria to Japan), MateMatic agent skills and curated third-party skills. Current counts live in the catalogue itself (counts in catalog.json), not in this file.

It answers one question: which building block solves the task at hand, and how to install it locally. The catalog points, it never proxies. Your agent gets a copy-paste uvx/npx command or a download link and runs it on your machine.

Status: v0.1.0 | License: Apache-2.0 | Maintainer: MateMatic

Why local

A hosted discovery API sees every query it answers, and in legal work the query itself is often confidential ("counter-arguments to our client's position in..."). This connector never sees anything: search runs in-process over a local copy of catalog.json. The only network request it ever makes is a conditional GET of the public catalog itself (ETag / If-None-Match).

No network? You get the last catalog cached on disk, or the snapshot shipped inside the package. Either way the response says where the data came from and how old it is: "catalog generated on X, source: network / disk-cache / bundled-snapshot". Nothing is installed or executed for you. The catalog returns commands; you run them.

MCP tools

(English, Polish or Portuguese) over the catalog. Every hit carries a local install command. When coverage is missing, the response says so in gaps[] instead of padding weak matches.

• boutiquesearch(query, jurisdiction?, entrytype?, limit?) - keyword search

every available language, install, version, license, source and card URLs.

• boutiqueget(id)** - the full card for one entry: names and descriptions in

(default: the 30 days before the catalog was generated).

• boutiquewhatsnew(sincedate?)** - what was added or updated since a date

from and what it does NOT cover. Every gap carries a stable id and a fallback. Call it when a search returns nothing: the absence may be a gap in the catalogue.

• boutiquecoverage()** - declares what this catalogue covers, where it comes

coverage-request issue for a gap. Draft only: nothing is sent anywhere; a human reviews and submits it.

• boutiquerequestcoverage(description, jurisdiction?) - drafts a

Quickstart

uvx boutique-mcp

MCP client configuration (mcp-servers.json):

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

Windows 11 with Smart App Control

Smart App Control blocks unsigned executables, which covers uvx.exe, pip.exe and the boutique-mcp.exe launcher that pip writes at install time. The python.exe and py.exe from the python.org installer are signed by the Python Software Foundation, so running the module through the interpreter works:

python -m pip install boutique-mcp
python -m boutique_mcp

pip.exe is blocked for the same reason, so install with python -m pip, not pip install. If python is not on PATH, use the Windows launcher: py -3 -m boutique_mcp.

{ "mcpServers": { "boutique-mcp": { "command": "python", "args": ["-m", "boutique_mcp"] } } }

Do not turn Smart App Control off to work around this - it cannot be re-enabled without reinstalling Windows.

Configuration

Data source

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.