lawsofsoftwareengineering.com

{
  "name": "find_laws",
  "kind": "answer",
  "impl": "imperative",
  "description": "Search or filter the Laws of Software Engineering corpus (56 laws). Provide a text query to match titles and descriptions, a category to filter by group, or both. Returns a list of matching laws with their slug, title, description, category, and URLs to HTML and markdown versions.",
  "inputSchema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "query": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Case-insensitive text to match against law title and description (e.g., \"organization\", \"estimate\", \"complexity\")."
      },
      "category": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "Architecture",
          "Teams",
          "Planning",
          "Quality",
          "Scale",
          "Design",
          "Decisions"
        ],
        "description": "Filter by thematic group."
      },
      "limit": {
        "type": "integer",
        "minimum": 1,
        "maximum": 56,
        "description": "Maximum number of results (default 20)."
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "name": "get_law",
  "kind": "answer",
  "impl": "imperative",
  "description": "Get the full content of a specific law by its slug (e.g., \"conways-law\", \"brooks-law\", \"yagni\"). Returns structured data including definition, takeaways, overview, examples, origins, related laws, and further reading. Use find_laws first if you do not know the slug.",
  "inputSchema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "slug": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Law slug: lowercase, hyphen-separated, no apostrophes (e.g., \"conways-law\" not \"conway's-law\")."
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "slug"
    ]
  }
}