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Government & Legal Index: US law for AI agents
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Firecrawl's free Government & Legal Index lets AI agents search 30M+ US government pages, from statutes and court opinions to city codes. Every result quotes and links its source, and through Firecrawl Alexandria lists the laws and cases it cites as canonical IDs such as us:usc:42:1983. The page is a product launch, not a ranking: its showcase traces Loper Bright, which cites 194 authorities including the overruled Chevron, and six qualified-immunity opinions that all cite 42 U.S.C. § 1983. It comes free in Claude, ChatGPT and coding agents, and through an API that needs no key to start.
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- Coverage spans federal, state and local law. Federal statutes, regulations, opinions, bills, tax forms and agency guidance sit beside state codes and session laws and county and city ordinances, zoning codes, permits and fee schedules, all searched as one index.
- Citations become a navigable graph. Each record carries a jurisdiction, a cited_as ID (for example us-ca:bus-prof-code:16600) and the IDs it cites, so an agent can walk from a summary to the controlling authority and filter by jurisdiction, court, court type, cited law and site.
- Design-partner examples answer everyday questions with primary sources. California's 2027 minimum wage of $17.40, Texas's three-day eviction notice, California's 5%-plus-CPI or 10% rent cap, the unenforced FTC noncompete rule and Texas's $20,000 small-claims limit each come with a quoted government source.
- Search is free and keyless at the start. Searches use no credits, while scraping a result's full text uses standard scrape credits. Access is through GET or POST /v2/search/gov, the firecrawl_gov_search MCP tool, the firecrawl gov CLI and Python and Node SDKs.
- The scope limits are explicit. The index covers US law only, an empty result does not mean no law applies, and Firecrawl says it is not legal advice: users should check the issuer, jurisdiction and currency of a source and ask a lawyer.
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“Get the statute, regulation or court opinion behind every answer, quoted and cited from the Government & Legal Index: 30M+ data points of US law.”
“Legal text keeps pointing to other legal text.”
“It focuses on US law, so for other countries your assistant should use general search, and no results doesn't mean no law applies.”