kolaw — Korean Law Library & Research Infra

Internal infrastructure for y-Tower agents. Not an external product. Primary consumer: Legaly (9F legal research agent).

Architecture

3 data sources → 2 search paths → 1 agent-facing API.

Source	Type	Phase
github.com/9bow/legalize-kr	2303 statutes as Markdown	Phase 1 (local)
github.com/chrisryugj/korean-law-mcp	64 MCP tools	Phase 2 (wire)
api.beopmang.org	Structured metadata	Phase 1 (client)

Fast path (90%): ChromaDB vector search on indexed corpus. Deep path (10%): RLM Engine — LLM writes search code, REPL executes, captures FINAL_ANSWER.

API

Port 8100. See docs/API.md for full spec.

GET  /health          # service status + data source availability
POST /search          # {query, mode: "fast"|"deep", laws?: [...]}
POST /search/batch    # [{query, mode}, ...] → [{...}]

Quick Start

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/antryu/kolaw

# Install
pip install -e .

# Run
uvicorn apps.api.main:app --port 8100

# Docker (recommended for agents)
docker-compose up
curl http://localhost:8100/health

LLM Policy

Local Qwen3-32B (llama-swap, port 8080) is primary. Claude Sonnet fallback requires ALLOW_ANTHROPIC=1 (explicit Andrew approval). See anthropic_approval_gate memory.