Arkansas Opinions MCP server

@pipeworx/arkansas-opinions

Current Arkansas Supreme Court and Arkansas Court of Appeals opinions — neutral citation, case name, decision date, docket, author, disposition, full text and every published revision — from the Arkansas Judiciary's official opinion archive at opinions.arcourts.gov, decisions from 2026-01-01 on, collected hourly. Fleet #2924.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1765+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

It exists because CourtListener, the source behind the court-listener pack, runs months behind the Arkansas courts: on 2026-10-10 its newest Arkansas Supreme Court opinion was 2026 Ark. 114 (2026-06-11) while the court had issued through 2026 Ark. 144 (2026-10-08). Older Arkansas case law stays with court-listener; its lookup_citation now falls through to this pack for a YYYY Ark. N / YYYY Ark. App. N citation CourtListener does not have.

Tools

opinions first, for one court ("supreme", "appeals") or both, optionally since a date. Answers "what did the Arkansas Supreme Court decide this week".

• arkrecentopinions(court?, since?, limit?, include_syllabi?) — newest

neutral citation ("2026 Ark. 140", "2026 Ark. App. 449", spelling is forgiving) or archive item id: metadata, full text, citation status and the version history. version returns an earlier revision's text.

• arkopinion(citation | itemid, version?, max_chars?) — one opinion by

full-text search (SQLite FTS5, porter stemming) over case name, citation and opinion text, with a highlighted passage per hit. Quote a phrase for an exact match; when no opinion holds every word it retries with any word and says so (matched: "any_term").

• arksearchopinions(query, court?, dateafter?, datebefore?, limit?) —

lowest/highest citation number per year, how many opinions were revised after release, when collection last succeeded and the state of the backfill. Call it before treating an absence as meaningful.

• ark_coverage() — per court: opinion count, earliest and latest decision,

Every response carries dataasof (when the collector last finished a successful run) and a source_url on opinions.arcourts.gov.

Versions

Slip opinions get editorial corrections after release, and the archive's RSS feeds flag them ("Document updated on MM/DD/YYYY"). The collector re-reads a flagged opinion; when its text or metadata hash differs from the current version, the new text becomes the current version and the earlier one is kept. arkopinion lists every version with its retrieval time, SHA-256, length and reason (firstfetch, rss_updated). A re-read that changes nothing adds no version.

Citation status

Recorded only from what the source states, on every opinion as citationstatus + citationstatus_note:

text carries no "not designated for publication" marker. Nothing more is claimed; the source does not state precedential status beyond that.

• neutralcitationassigned — the court assigned a neutral citation and the

as citation-restricted and never as precedent.

• unpublished — the text says it is not designated for publication. Treat it

hour); not to be cited until it is.

• nocitationassigned — a syllabus, order or notice with no citation.
• notyetread — listed by the court, text not read yet (usually within the

Auth

Keyless for callers. The tools answer only through the Pipeworx gateway: the opinions are read from a database the collector fills, and a standalone npm install has no data, so every tool throws a clear "not bound in this runtime" error there instead of returning an empty list.

Data sources

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.