ris-austria-guide

ris-austria-guide is a skill for Claude Code from cyanheads/ris-austria-mcp-server. It costs 95 tokens per session (2,184 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research guide for Austria's legal information system, RIS. RIS provides Austrian laws, official gazettes, court decisions, and legislative records, mostly in German, with consolidated texts and authentic published documents kept separate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trace a citation to Austrian law, find the text in force on a date, read court decisions and headnotes, check a law's history, or follow a bill to its explanatory notes and enacted gazette.
Why use it?
It helps researchers choose the right record for the question and distinguish an informational consolidated text from an authentic gazette publication. It also prevents searches for EU law or unsupported historical material from being treated as complete.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ris-austria-mcp-server plugin — 35 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to trace a citation to Austrian law, find the text in force on a date, read court decisions and headnotes, check a law's history, or follow a bill to its explanatory notes and enacted gazette.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyanheads/ris-austria-mcp-server/ris-austria-guide
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add cyanheads/ris-austria-mcp-server --skill ris-austria-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/ris-austria-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ris-austria-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,184 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00095 $0.02184
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00874
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00437
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00218

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4b64c5b2888a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ris-austria-guide scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/ris-austria-guide/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scope

RIS holds Austrian law only, in German, with no API key: consolidated federal, state, and municipal law, the federal and state gazettes, court and tribunal decisions, the federal lawmaking pipeline, and sectoral announcements. EU acts are not consolidated here. ris_lookup_citation answers a DSGVO or Charter cite with found: false and a EUR-Lex link, but the Austrian decisions that apply those acts are here, reached through the case-law norm filter.

Three record classes answer different questions, so pick the one that fits before you search:

You need Read Binding?
What the law says on a date consolidated law (BrKons federal, LrKons state) No, informational
The text as promulgated, to quote or cite the gazette entry (BgblAuth 2004+, LgblAuth) Yes, authentic with a signed PDF
How courts read a provision case law: Rechtssatz headnotes and decision texts Decisions

A federal gazette entry from before 2004 (BgblPdf) is historical_record. RIS has no signed PDF for it, so cite its gazette number.

Identifiers

Identifier Looks like Comes from Use it with
law_id (Gesetzesnummer) 10001597 (DSG) any consolidated-law record ris_search_legislation law_id, for every section or every version of one law
promulgation on a consolidated record BGBl. I Nr. 165/1999 zuletzt geändert durch BGBl. I Nr. 51/2012 the same record each cite inside it goes to ris_lookup_citation: the original act, then the act that produced this version
Geschäftszahl 1Ob78/26s, Ro 2026/03/0016 case_numbers on case-law records ris_search_case_law case_number (same court), or ris_lookup_citation
RIS-Justiz RS number RS0022961 OGH headnote citations in decisions and commentary see the Gates section: ris_lookup_citation does not parse it
Rechtssatz ECLI ECLI:AT:OGH0002:1959:RS0022961 ecli on a Justiz Rechtssatz ris_lookup_citation resolves it
Gazette document_url / eli https://…/eli/bgbl/I/2012/51/20120605 gazette records a web view for people. ris_get_document rejects it as unsupported_url, so read the entry with its document_number + servedApplication, or open authentic_pdf_url

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago Changed · +1 lines 4b64c5b2888a
  2. 10d ago First seen · 71 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A fcef29d4aae2

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ris-austria-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/ris-austria-mcp-server (3 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 2,184 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-28.

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