Who it is for
Litigators researching federal cases and the attorneys, firms and judges involved.
DocketBird
283M federal court filings and the litigation relationships behind them
Overview
What DocketBird does
DocketBird indexes 283 million filings from every US federal district, bankruptcy and appellate court. The ordinary use is retrieval: pull a complete docket sheet, read a filing's full text or PDF, or jump straight to a case's complaint.
The less ordinary use is the relationship graph. Starting from an attorney, firm, party or judge, every case they appear in can be explored, along with who they have represented, who they have opposed, and how those parties connect. Cases can be tracked for new activity. The publisher describes it as free to use with no subscription. Community tier.
Tool surface
Credentials gate the endpoint, so fourteen is the listing's count. Docket sheet retrieval, full-text and PDF reading, complaint lookup, relationship traversal and case tracking are the groupings given.
Availability
Where DocketBird is listed
DocketBird is listed in the Claude connectors directory only. Mink LLC has no app under the same domain in the ChatGPT directory; 392 of the 3,150 products here are on both marketplaces, and this is not one of them.
The MCP server behind a Claude connector is usually the same server a ChatGPT app would need, so the absence is a distribution decision rather than a technical one.
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
DocketBird publishes 14 tools to Claude. That is a mid-sized surface: 56.6% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under Legal publishes 11, so this one runs 3 tools above its bucket's median and ranks 13th of 33 by tool count.
It falls in the 11-20 tools band, which holds 22.5% of the Claude directory.
DocketBird publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- Mink LLC
- Verification
- Community-listed (61.5% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Legal
- Endpoint
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https://mcp.docketbird.com/mcp - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 14 · 11-20 tools band
- Depth rank in Legal
- 13 of 33
- Snapshot
- August 2026
DocketBird is community-listed in the Claude directory, the tier 770 of 1,253 connectors sit in (61.5%). It is the default for a self-published server, and says nothing either way about quality.
In the publisher's words
How Mink LLC describes it
Search 283 million filings from every U.S. federal district, bankruptcy, and appellate court. DocketBird enables you to uncover the relationships in federal civil litigation: start with any attorney, firm, party, or judge and explore every case they're involved in, who they've represented and opposed, and how they connect to each other. Pull a docket sheet, read a filing's full text or PDF, jump straight to any case's complaint, and track cases for new activity. Free to use — no subscription required. **You can use DocketBird to:** - **Retrieve a full docket sheet:** "Give me the complete docket sheet for 1:20-cv-03010 (D.D.C.), organized with the most recent filings first." - **Read a filing's full text or PDF:** "Pull the full text of the motion to dismiss in this case and summarize its arguments." - **Pull the complaint from any case:** "Show me every civil case my competitor filed last year in the Northern District of California, with the complaints." - **Track case activity:** "Track this docket and tell me when there's new activity." - **Research opposing counsel:** "What's this attorney's history with Judge Alsup?" - **Check a party's litigation record:** "Has Acme Corp been sued in federal court before? Who represented them?" - **Run pairwise relationship queries:** "Find every federal civil case where Kirkland & Ellis appeared opposite Wachtell, and which judges presided."
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from DocketBird's public marketplace listing as it stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Mink LLC, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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