Delaware Code MCP server

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Delaware Code — state statutes by citation, full-text search, and amendment history. Keyless.

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Tools

citation ("11-636" is murder in the first degree; "6-2734" is contracts with automatic renewal provisions). Resolves the citation to its one chapter/subchapter page via a baked index, fetches that page live, and slices out the section's text plus its amendment history.

• de_statute(citation) — full text of a Delaware Code section by

statutory text, via the Delaware General Assembly's own live search API (not a baked catchline index — see below).

• de_search(query, limit?) — real full-text search over Delaware Code

Auth

Keyless.

The survey trap was half right

The recorded trap for Delaware was "indexes name chapters but publish no section ranges" — true: a citation like "11 Del. C. 636" does not say which of Delaware's ~2,200 chapter/subchapter HTML pages holds it, and unlike North Dakota there is no single combined index page to bake from. But every one of those ~2,200 pages is small, plain, keyless HTML (no PDF, no login, no JS rendering required), and the whole tree is walkable:

https://delcode.delaware.gov/index.html                     -> 31 titles
https://delcode.delaware.gov/title11/index.html               -> chapters
https://delcode.delaware.gov/title11/c005/index.html           -> either
    section content directly, or a list of subchapter links
https://delcode.delaware.gov/title11/c005/sc02/index.html    -> section
    content, when the chapter has subchapters

So the fix is the same shape as mcps/north-dakota-code (crawl once, bake a citation index, fetch live per call) even though the underlying page layout is completely different — see scripts/bake-index.mjs for the crawl and src/de-index-data.ts (generated) for the baked table. The table stores citation + official catchline + chapter/subchapter/title context + the ONE content-page URL for that citation — never the statutory text itself, which de_statute fetches live on every call.

Refresh path

Re-run the bake script whenever Delaware's General Assembly recodifies (adds, renumbers, or splits a chapter/subchapter):

node mcps/delaware-code/scripts/bake-index.mjs > mcps/delaware-code/src/de-index-data.ts

It fails loudly if the root index parses to fewer than 25 titles, or the whole crawl yields suspiciously few content pages or sections — both would mean delcode.delaware.gov changed its markup rather than that the Code got smaller. It also prints one WARNING: line per chapter/subchapter it found with no section content (reserved placeholder chapters, or a chapter transferred elsewhere whose old page carries nothing) — these are skipped, not treated as failures, because the on-site index itself still lists them.

de_search calls a REAL full-text search API, not a baked catchline index

Unlike the ND/IA/KY sibling packs, Delaware's Legislature runs a genuine full-text search behind its on-site search box — found only by reading the search page's own Kendo grid configuration (there is no documented public endpoint):

POST https://legis.delaware.gov/json/DelCodeSearch/GetDelCodeSearchResults?searchTerm=<q>

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.