CourtGPT Legal Trust Report

CourtGPT · Trust Report

A transparent register of what each legal surface actually shows today — accuracy, coverage, freshness, and tooling maturity.

Last updated
2026-07-27
Owner
CourtGPT · Product platform
Surfaces covered
4 (congress · laws · directory · browser)

How to read this report

  • Status mirrors the pill rendered on the legal page itself (`Live` / `Demo data` / `Limited data`).
  • Coverage bands describe the data the page renders, not the regulator or jurisdiction it references.
  • Promotion env vars are server-side only; absence of the var means the honesty copy shown to the user is the limited / demo state, not a hidden live mode.
  • No `PUBLIC_`-prefixed env var is read by any legal surface — keys stay server-side inside Convex actions.

Surface-by-surface register

  • Congress

    Limited data

    No live key configured. The page renders an honest empty state with curated recent-activity links pointing at Congress.gov URLs. The pill is `Limited data` until a server-side `CONGRESS_GOV_KEY` is provisioned.

    Capability
    congress-bills
    Accuracy
    None
    Coverage
    None
    Freshness
    Static
    Tooling
    Unconfigured
    Promotion env var
    CONGRESS_GOV_KEY
    Upstream owner
    Library of Congress · Congress.gov
    Last refreshed
    —
    Source of truth

    src/pages/api/legal/congress/* → convex/legalDatasets.ts → api.congress.gov

    Known gaps
    • Public bill search is disabled; no API key is provisioned on the server.
    • No author / sponsor data, no vote records, no committee activity yet.
    • Recent activity rail is curated; it does not reflect current-day activity.

  • Laws

    Demo data

    The production search path is backed by the CourtGPT laws service and is gated on `LAWS_API_URL`; when it is unavailable, the surface shows no statute rows rather than synthetic results. Curated reference material remains separately labeled and is not presented as live search.

    Capability
    state-laws
    Accuracy
    Paraphrased
    Coverage
    Sample
    Freshness
    Curated
    Tooling
    Demo
    Promotion env var
    LAWS_API_URL
    Upstream owner
    CourtGPT · Curated state-laws corpus (DigitalOcean `laws_dashboard`)
    Last refreshed
    2026-07-27
    Source of truth

    LAWS_API_URL → laws-api → convex/legalDatasets.ts

    Known gaps
    • Live search is env-gated; unconfigured deployments do not expose a search dataset.
    • Search is keyword-only; no section-level pinpoint, no semantic ranking.
    • 55 jurisdictions are covered; the corpus is not exhaustive of every state code.
    • No legislative history or amendment chain yet.

  • Directory

    Limited data

    Renders curated directory entries (federal courts, judges, agencies, practitioner resources) with honest limited-data copy. The page is structurally complete but no live backend ships; the first-party directory backend is a planned capability and the Convex action does not yet exist.

    Capability
    directory
    Accuracy
    Curated
    Coverage
    Sample
    Freshness
    Static
    Tooling
    Unconfigured
    Promotion env var
    DIRECTORY_API_URL
    Upstream owner
    CourtGPT · Curated directory + U.S. Courts public reference
    Last refreshed
    2026-07-27
    Source of truth

    src/data/directoryCourts.ts · directoryJudges.ts · directoryAgencies.ts · directoryPractitioners.ts

    Known gaps
    • No live directory backend; all data is curated static samples.
    • No address / phone / clerk-of-court records beyond the curated sources.
    • No practitioner admission rosters; no bar lookup yet.
    • Coverage is structural: federal courts + categories, not every state-level court.

  • Visual Law Browser

    Limited data

    A curated grid of public-domain legal research sources grouped by authority (courts, agencies, archives). It is a public reference surface, not a connector — it does not call `listConnectors` and is not part of the product MCP capability.

    Capability
    visual-browser
    Accuracy
    Curated
    Coverage
    Sample
    Freshness
    Static
    Tooling
    Unconfigured
    Promotion env var
    BROWSER_API_URL
    Upstream owner
    CourtGPT · Curated public sources (Courts · Agencies · Research archives)
    Last refreshed
    2026-07-27
    Source of truth

    src/data/legalSources.ts · browserTabs.ts · courtListenerMirrors.ts → public sources (open access)

    Known gaps
    • All entries are curated; no live explore / pagination is wired.
    • No per-source live health probe; mirror URLs are review-only.
    • No search across registered sources; the in-page search is a curated matcher.
    • No save / bookmark; the visual browser is read-only.

Caveats per surface

  • No MCPCongress data is not exposed as a product MCP connector — `mcp` capability stays blocked.
  • Server-side only`CONGRESS_GOV_KEY` is read inside Convex actions; no client bundle ships it.
  • No verbatim textSnippets are short factual paraphrases under the fair-use threshold; source URLs point at the official state portal.
  • Not MCPLaws corpus is a first-party Convex action; it does not flip the product MCP capability to `available`.
  • Registry only`directory` is a registered capability id; the backing action is not yet implemented.
  • No portal scrapingLive directory data will land only via a vetted first-party backend.
  • Not MCPThe browser is intentionally separate from the product MCP capability (which stays blocked).
  • Read-onlyNo write surface, no connector registration, no tool execution.

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