Agent skill · research science · mvanhorn
pp-rechtspraak
The first CLI for Dutch court decisions with rich local narrowing for long-tail legal keywords, an appeal-chain walker Trigger phrases: `look up Dutch court decision`, `find a rechtspraak ECLI`, `narrow Dutch case search by keyword`, `exclude term from rechtspraak results`, `walk the appeal chain`, `Dutch case law search`, `use rechtspraak`, `run rechtspraak`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds a CLI tool with unique commands for navigating and exporting Dutch court decisions that aren't available elsewhere.
What it needs
Requires rechtspraak-pp-cli installed locally. About 9k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Rechtspraak — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the rechtspraak-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: rechtspraak-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead: If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. Every Dutch ECLI from data.rechtspraak.nl, indexed locally so include/exclude/phrase/regex narrowing cuts a 1000-result topic down to a usable set — the upstream API has no free-text search, so this is the only place that workflow exists. Walks the cassation chain in one command, exports vindplaatsen as BibTeX, and exposes every command as an MCP tool — the first MCP server for Dutch case law. When to Use This CLI Reach for this CLI when an agent needs to research, monitor, or correlate Dutch court decisions. Strong fit for Dutch legal research, appellate workflow assistance, jurisprudence-corpus building, and any agent that needs structured access to ECLIs without parsing raw RDF/XML. Pairs naturally with tenderned and pdok-location for a full Dutch civic-data agent stack. When Not to Use This CLI Do not activate this CLI for requests that require creating, updating, deleting, publishing, commenting, upvoting, inviting, ordering, sending messages, booking, purchasing, or changing remote state. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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