Agent skill

Recherche Normes

by lawve-ai in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills

Find and quote statutory and regulatory law with the LibreJustice MCP tools — French codes at any date, EU law, treaties and bilateral accords, foreign codes (59 countries), collective agreements…

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedLegal & Compliance

Install Recherche Normes

skills CLI
$ npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill recherche-normes -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills recherche-normes --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/recherche-normes-librejustice .claude/skills/recherche-normes && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
recherche-normes
GitHub stars
847
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
871 words
Files
8 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
154
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Find and quote statutory and regulatory law with the LibreJustice MCP tools — French codes at any date, EU law, treaties and bilateral accords, foreign codes (59 countries), collective agreements…

  • Works in 3 steps: Never quote a provision from memory.… → Date before text. Identify the legally… → Name texts by their official name. The…
  • The user asks what a text says
  • SKILL.md covers Iron rules, Three access paths, cheapest…, Versions, renumbering, silence and Legal orders and hierarchy, plus 3 more sections
  • Reaches librejustice.fr

What it does

Recherche Normes is an agent skill from lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills. Find and quote statutory and regulatory law with the LibreJustice MCP tools — French codes at any date, EU law, treaties and bilateral accords, foreign codes (59 countries), collective agreements, BOFiP, circulaires. Use whenever the user asks what a text says or said at a given date, which version or which text applies to a situation, needs the exact wording of a provision for a brief, or works with foreign or international law in French litigation, even if they never mention LibreJustice.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 8 other files, including reference files (for example `README.md`, `references/corpus.md` and `references/external-sources.md`).

It sits in Legal & Compliance, covering Legal research and MCP servers. It works with Model Context Protocol. The repository describes itself as: A curated list of awesome Agent Skills for automating legal work. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks what a text says
  • Said at a given date
  • Which text applies to a situation
  • Needs the exact wording of a provision for a brief

Example prompts

  • “/recherche-normes”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Never quote a provision from memory. Fetch it with
  2. Date before text. Identify the legally relevant date first —
  3. Name texts by their official name. The code filter resolves

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 045f738. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • librejustice.fr

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Recherche Normes loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 128 tokens; SKILL.md has 871 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~128
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills at commit 045f738, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© lawve-ai). 871 words, ~1,701 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/recherche-normes/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 7 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
recherche-normes
description
Find and quote statutory and regulatory law with the LibreJustice MCP tools — French codes at any date, EU law, treaties and bilateral accords, foreign codes (59 countries), collective agreements, BOFiP, circulaires. Use whenever the user asks what a text says or said at a given date, which version or which text applies to a situation, needs the exact wording of a provision for a brief, or works with foreign or international law in French litigation, even if they never mention LibreJustice.

Statutory research (LibreJustice)

The user is typically a litigator: they need the exact provision, in the version in force at the legally relevant date, linked and quoted verbatim. A paraphrase from memory is not a deliverable — models misremember article numbers and miss amendments; every quoted provision comes from get_legal_text.

The referential goes far beyond French codes: EU law, international treaties (including bilateral accords), the codes of 59 foreign countries, collective agreements, BOFiP. Map and counts: references/corpus.md. Observed failure modes: references/traps.md. Foreign and international law: references/foreign-law.md.

The tools come from the LibreJustice MCP server; if get_legal_text is missing from your session, connect it first: references/install-mcp.md.

Iron rules

  1. Never quote a provision from memory. Fetch it with get_legal_text, quote verbatim, link the article ([Article 7 bis de l'Accord franco-algérien du 27 décembre 1968](https://librejustice.fr/texte/…) — the url verbatim).
  2. Date before text. Identify the legally relevant date first — the attacked decision, the facts, the contract — pass it as date, and say which version you quote (its validity window is in the response). The version in force today is the wrong one for most litigation.
  3. Name texts by their official name. The code filter resolves slugs and exact official names, not usual names — « CEDH » and « Convention européenne des droits de l'homme » fail where « Convention de sauvegarde des droits de l'homme et des libertés fondamentales » works. When unsure, recover the slug from facets.code or from an inline /texte/ link in a decision.

A get_legal_text response may also carry commentaires — doctrine anchored on the article, served inline (body) or as outbound links (url). Context, never the norm: only the article text quotes as the provision.

Three access paths, cheapest first

  1. Text and article known — compose the URL directly: https://librejustice.fr/texte/{code-slug}/{article-key} (code-civil/47, code-de-la-famille-sen/40, accord-franco-algerien-du-27-decembre-1968/7-bis; keys are lowercase, l761-1 for L. 761-1). A wrong slug errors back with the closest ones — guessing then correcting is one call, a search is two.
  2. Text known, article unknown — search_legal_texts with the code filter (slug or exact name) and a descriptive French query on the subject. Within one named text, ranking is reliable.
  3. Text unknown — descriptive query plus the jurisdiction filter (FR, UE, INTL, or an ISO country code SN, DZ, BE…), then read facets.code to see which texts concentrate the matches and re-query with the winner. Ranking is domestic-first: a bare descriptive query ranks French, EU and treaty law above the 59 foreign corpora, and naming the country in the query (« divorce au sénégal ») scopes it to that country's law instead. A query that IS a text's name — official or usual (« code civil du sénégal ») — returns the text itself as a num-less first hit whose url is the /texte/{slug} entry point: the cheapest way to recover a slug. Still don't trust a bare descriptive search beyond its top hits: the corpus is ~2 million articles dominated by circulaires and arrêtés, the total is OR-matched noise, and body-text sources keep crowding treaty searches — the jurisdiction and code filters remain the robust path.
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Versions, renumbering, silence

  • The response carries the full version timeline. When a text was recodified or an article renumbered (CESEDA 2021: L. 313-11 → L. 423-23; code du travail 2008), query both numbers — each key has its own timeline and the decisive one depends on your date.
  • « Not found » with a date means no version in force at that date under that key — not that the rule did not exist. Re-fetch without date to see the timeline, then chase the earlier numbering.
  • Abrogated texts stay served: the code de la nationalité française or an old CESEDA article at its date is one date away.
  • Hits may repeat one article once per version — deduplicate by URL.

State which legal order a provision belongs to, and flag the hierarchy when orders collide: a bilateral accord is lex specialis (the accord franco-algérien governs Algerian residence permits and derogates from the CESEDA), EU law primes national law in its field, the Convention de sauvegarde primes statute. When the question spans orders, fetch the provisions on each side — never assume the code tells the whole story.

Chain with case law

Both directions, and always both in a dispute:

  • Text → decisions: search_decisions with legal_instrument (any slug: a French code, a treaty, a foreign code) or legal_article (accord-franco-algerien-du-27-decembre-1968|7-bis) finds the decisions applying the provision — then the recherche-jurisprudence skill takes over.
  • Decision → texts: decision full texts carry inline /texte/ links on every cited provision; open them with get_legal_text rather than searching again.

Present each provision

  • The linked citation with the official text name and article number, url verbatim as the link target.
  • Which version: validity dates, and why that version governs the case (rule 2).
  • The verbatim excerpt — never truncate a sentence in a way that drops a condition or a negation.
  • For foreign and aggregated sources, the provenance when reliability matters: each hit carries a source field (official publishers like legifrance, eur-lex, fedlex, dri.gouv.sn vs aggregators like jafbase or archive.org — see corpus.md).

Don't waste calls

  • Known article → compose the URL, skip the search.
  • The version timeline arrives with every fetch — no second call to ask « since when ».
  • One search with the right filter beats five filterless reformulations; after two queries with no new candidate, change the filter (code, jurisdiction), not the synonyms.

© lawve-ai, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 7 other files (references) in skills/recherche-normes-librejustice of lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • LICENSE
  • README.md
  • references/corpus.md
  • references/external-sources.md
  • references/foreign-law.md
  • references/install-mcp.md
  • references/traps.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 045f738

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Questions about Recherche Normes

What does Recherche Normes do?

Find and quote statutory and regulatory law with the LibreJustice MCP tools — French codes at any date, EU law, treaties and bilateral accords, foreign codes (59 countries), collective agreements…. Recherche Normes is an agent skill from lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills. Find and quote statutory and regulatory law with the LibreJustice MCP tools — French codes at any date, EU law, treaties and bilateral accords, foreign codes (59 countries), collective agreements, BOFiP, circulaires.

When should I use Recherche Normes?

Recherche Normes fits situations like: the user asks what a text says; said at a given date; which text applies to a situation; needs the exact wording of a provision for a brief.

How do I install Recherche Normes in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill recherche-normes -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/recherche-normes-librejustice in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills) into .claude/skills/recherche-normes in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Recherche Normes in Codex?

Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill recherche-normes -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/recherche-normes-librejustice in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills) into .agents/skills/recherche-normes in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Recherche Normes in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill recherche-normes -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/recherche-normes, .gemini/skills/recherche-normes, .github/skills/recherche-normes and .opencode/skills/recherche-normes in your project.

What does Recherche Normes need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Recherche Normes is instructions for the agent only.

Does Recherche Normes access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. In commands or code: librejustice.fr; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Recherche Normes safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Recherche Normes use?

Recherche Normes is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (from the LICENSE file in the skill folder). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Recherche Normes use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 4.3k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Recherche Normes?

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Who maintains Recherche Normes?

lawve-ai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, which has 847 GitHub stars. The repository holds 154 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 2, 2026.

Source: lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.