# VeriCite

> Verified legal research over 10.78M U.S. judicial opinions and statutes
> across 52 jurisdictions. Every quotation is byte-verified against the
> source at a recorded location; good-law checks are dated and disclose how
> many citing opinions were examined. Prepaid credits; prices are stated
> before each charge.

## For AI agents (MCP)

- MCP endpoint (streamable HTTP): https://vericite.net/mcp
  Authorization: Bearer <agent token>. 30 tools:
  hybrid case search, statute lookup/search/read, citation verification,
  good-law treatment, citation network, doctrinal lineage, document
  ingest and brief checking, and deep-research runs with verified
  artifact streaming.
- Get a token (no account, no OAuth):
  1. POST https://vericite.net/api/agent/signup {"email": "...", "amount_usd": "20"}
     -> Stripe checkout URL (a human pays it), or
     POST https://vericite.net/api/agent/subscribe {"email": "...", "tier": "basic"|"solo"|"practice"|"firm", "interval": "month"|"year"}
     Every tier refills more credit than it costs:
     basic $5/mo refills $7 credit; solo $15/mo refills $25 credit; practice $50/mo refills $90 credit; firm $150/mo refills $300 credit. Annual is 10x monthly (two months free); unspent credit is refundable.
  2. After payment: POST https://vericite.net/api/agent/token {"session_id": "..."}
     -> bearer token (shown exactly once).
- Prices per tool call, from the price card the metering gate charges by:
  - billing_portal_link, buy_credits, document_ingest, extract_citations, find_citing_cases, get_case, get_started, grant_revoke, job_cancel, job_steer, read_opinion, refund, refund_quote, research_start, research_status, share_link, statute_lookup, statute_read, token_rotate, verify_citation (free): resolve a case or citation against the corpus, read the full opinion, look up and read statutes, start, steer, cancel and share a run, check a brief, and manage credit
  - doctrinal_lineage ($0.10/call): how a holding travelled: the authority trail from a case forward and back
  - get_case_treatment ($0.10/call): dated good-law verdict with the treatment that produced it
  - get_citation_network ($0.03/call): who cites this case and whom it cites
  - search_cases ($0.03/call): hybrid semantic + full-text search over 77.5M embedded opinion chunks
  - statute_search ($0.01/call): semantic search across statutes and court rules
  - verify_quote ($0.02/call): word-for-word quote verification with a pincite locator
  - check_authorities ($0.10/citation, capped $1.00): dated good-law + treatment verdicts, up to 40 at once
  - download_dossier ($0.50/run per format): the finished memo from a research run
  - research_artifacts (per artifact delivered): verified work products as each task completes: authority_resolved $0.05, cite_support_note $0.05, quote_pinned $0.25; other kinds are free and a redelivery is never charged twice
  - brief_check ($0.10/citation, capped $1.00 per document): every citation in a brief you send as TEXT: resolved, dated good-law, quotes byte-checked; the text is processed in the request and not stored (specs/agent_surface S5.9.5)
  An exhausted balance answers JSON-RPC error -32042 with a top-up URL.
- Machine top-up (Machine Payments Protocol, HTTP 402):
  https://vericite.net/api/agent/topup
- OAuth (no token to copy): add https://vericite.net/mcp to an OAuth-capable
  client; it discovers
  https://vericite.net/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp, registers
  itself, and the human signs in once in a browser and approves it.
- Free tier (no card): sign in at https://vericite.net/login, then POST
  https://vericite.net/api/agent/free {} from that session -> bearer token;
  the free tools above cost nothing, rate-limited 30 req/min per ACCOUNT.
  Credited accounts: 240 req/min. Starting credit: POST /api/agent/trial
  (card verified, nothing charged, once per card).
- Client setup (turnkey page for humans: https://vericite.net/start):
  * Claude Code:  claude mcp add --transport http vericite \
      https://vericite.net/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer TOKEN"
  * Codex CLI (~/.codex/config.toml):
      [mcp_servers.vericite]
      url = "https://vericite.net/mcp"
      http_headers = { "Authorization" = "Bearer TOKEN" }
  * Gemini CLI (~/.gemini/settings.json): mcpServers.vericite =
      {"httpUrl": "https://vericite.net/mcp",
       "headers": {"Authorization": "Bearer TOKEN"}}
  * Generic mcp.json: {"url": "https://vericite.net/mcp",
       "headers": {"Authorization": "Bearer TOKEN"}}
  First tool to call: get_started (free) - features, prices, live balance.

## For humans

- Research: https://vericite.net/research (sign-in required)
- Terms: https://vericite.net/terms  Privacy: https://vericite.net/privacy
- Support: support@vericite.net