RIS - Österreichisches Recht Plugin

ris-marketplace

A Claude Code marketplace shipping the RIS plugin — search and citation over the Austrian Rechtsinformationssystem (RIS): federal, state, district and municipal law, gazettes (Bundesgesetzblatt, Landesgesetzblätter), and case law from the VfGH, VwGH, OGH, BVwG, LVwG, Datenschutzbehörde, and a dozen further specialised tribunals.

Read-only. Public data, CC BY 4.0 (Bundeskanzleramt, Republik Österreich). No write tools, no irreversible operations.

Install

The plugin ships a pre-wired connector to the hosted MCP server at https://ris-mcp-worker.matteo-buergler.workers.dev/mcp — no local server, no API key.

Easiest — in the Claude app (chat or Cowork)

For non-technical users. Gives you both the tools and the bundled skill.

1. In the left sidebar, go to Customize.
2. At Personal plugins click "+".
3. Choose Create Plugin → Add marketplace → Add from a repository.
4. Paste: https://github.com/mburgler/ris-marketplace and accept.
5. Next to RIS - Österreichisches Recht Plugin, click "+" to install.
6. In settings, Check the sidebar: both the skill ris-research and the connector ris-mcp must be installed. Typically, the connector ris-mcp must be added individually.

Adding the plugin in the Claude app allows for usage in the Claude Mobile App.

Claude Code (CLI)

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/mburgler/ris-marketplace
/plugin install ris-mcp@ris-marketplace
/reload-plugins
/reload-skills

For command usage, type /ris-research.

What you get

Eight tools and one skill:

Tool	Purpose
ris_about	Server identity, sources, license, disclaimer
ris_list_scopes	Valid enum values for a field (Bundesland, Fachgebiet, …)
ris_search	Universal search across 38 RIS applications, eight corpora
ris_get_document	Full metadata for one record
ris_get_section	Full text of one paragraph / article / Rechtssatz
ris_get_related	Amendments, predecessors, cited norms, citing decisions
ris_verify	In-force check on a date against consolidated law
ris_get_history	Change feed for an Anwendung between two dates

The bundled ris-research skill teaches the agent one discipline above all: the verbatim-vs-paraphrase distinction — quotation marks mark text taken unchanged from RIS, and paraphrase is never dressed as a quote. It keeps a lean inline-tag vocabulary ([Modellwissen — zu prüfen], […]/[gekürzt], [Übersetzung]) and a one-sentence prompt-injection defence over retrieved content. Disclaimer once per session, no per-answer boilerplate.

Every record carries a ris_citation (RIS internal id + ELI or Geschäftszahl + dokument_url + retrieved_at) and an is_authentic flag — true only for applications that carry legal force (the gazette and a handful of authentic registers), false for consolidated text (BrKons, LrKons) and informational records. The server keeps this as structured data; the skill uses it for routing rather than surfacing it on every answer.

Sanity check

curl https://ris-mcp-worker.matteo-buergler.workers.dev/health
# → { "status": "ok", "ris_reachable": true, ... }

What's inside this repo

.claude-plugin/
  marketplace.json        # marketplace manifest
ris-mcp/                  # the plugin itself
  .claude-plugin/plugin.json
  .mcp.json               # connector configuration → hosted endpoint
  README.md               # plugin-level docs
  skills/ris-research/
    SKILL.md              # the agent skill
LICENSE                   # Apache-2.0 (plugin + skill content)
README.md                 # this file

The MCP server code (the thing that runs at ris-mcp-worker.matteo-buergler.workers.dev) is maintained separately and is not part of this repository.

License

• Plugin / skill content (this repo): Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE.
• RIS data delivered by the server: CC BY 4.0 — credit Bundeskanzleramt, Republik Österreich.

Disclaimer

Only specific RIS applications carry legal force. Consolidated text is informational only — always cite the gazette for legally binding propositions. Not legal advice.

Contact

• Plugin maintainer: Matteo Bürgler · [email protected]
• Upstream support / mass-download coordination: [email protected] (Bundeskanzleramt Abt. VII/6 — E-Government Bund/Verwaltung)