BIA Edge
BIA Edge is a retrieval layer that gives AI agents citation-grade access to the U.S. immigration-law corpus. It covers published BIA precedent plus roughly 248,000 unpublished BIA decisions and 167,000 AAO non-precedent decisions, federal circuit, district, and Supreme Court immigration cases, Attorney General and OCAHO decisions, the INA and Title 8 and related CFR, the USCIS Policy Manual, FAM and agency guidance, state and federal criminal codes for crimmigration screening, visa bulletins, and EOIR statistics. Its read-only tools cover exact citation lookup, case and statute search, case-validity and treatment signals, unpublished and immigrant-favorable decision search, doctrine and related-precedent context, pinpoint source-text passages, and state and federal criminal-code screening. BIA Edge is a corpus-and-retrieval layer designed for the agent to verify source text and synthesize the work product; it does not produce final legal conclusions on its own. Built for immigration attorneys and the AI tools they already use. Access requires a BIA Edge account (request at https://biaedge.com/mcp-access); authentication is OAuth or an issued API key. The corpus is updated continuously, and freshness is reported through a corpus-status tool.
- Integration type
- Connector
- Verification status
Community connector- Platform
- Claude
- Primary Subcategory
- Legal Research Engines
- Secondary Subcategories
- None listed
- Brand
- BIA Edge
- Access
- Account required
- First tracked
- 2026-07-08
- Tool count
- 39
- Geography
- US
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Claude Discoverability Score
Live · refreshed daily. Last refreshedBIA Edge in Legal Research Engines
#10of 33competitors
This is the score for the Integration’s Primary Category, Legal Research Engines. BIA Edge's tools align with this Category, which is why we measure it here. Claude did not find it in connector search, show it in the connector picker, or invoke it in the measured contested Runs. That is why the score is 0.
How this score is measuredWhat we measure
One core score. Three important factors to discoverability.
- Sets the score
Picked
· 0/100 - Diagnostic
Found
· 0/100 - Diagnostic
Positioned
· 0/100
Competing in Claude Legal Research Engines
View CategoryWhat does 0/100 mean?
0 is BIA Edge's rounded picker appearance rate. It appeared in the connector picker, or Claude invoked it directly, in 0% of contested conversations. All three measures are important to discoverability: Picked determines the headline score, Found shows how often Claude found BIA Edge in connector search, and Positioned shows where it appeared in the picker.
BIA Edge is 10 points from Buried.
FoundDiagnostic
Whether Claude found your Connector in connector search. It must be Found before it can reach the picker, but the score counts picker appearances—not search results.
PickedMain score
How often your Connector appeared in the picker, or Claude invoked it directly, across contested conversations. This percentage is the Discoverability Score; the headline number is rounded.
PositionedDiagnostic
What position your Connector appeared in when it was shown in the picker. This shows prominence, but it does not affect the score.
39 tools agents can invoke
How do I improve a Community connector's discoverability?
The levers are the listing surface agents actually read: names, descriptions, keywords, tool metadata, and registry health. Which lever matters depends on where discovery breaks, which is what continuous measurement shows.
What are BIA Edge alternatives on Claude?
As of 2026-08-14, BIA Edge competes with CoCounsel Legal, CourtListener, Midpage Legal Research, Descrybe Legal Engine, Trellis, Legal Data Hunter, Courtroom5, Jus AI by Jus Mundi (Light Mode), Alizé, Citare IA, CiteLaw, Courrt, DingDuff, DirectCase Legal Search, DocketBird, FedMCP, GovQuery, JUDY, Juridata, Jusratio, JusticeNow Library, Laki.ai, Lawstronaut, LegalInk AI — Inka, LibreJustice, Policy Doctor, Simpliciter, TaxGraph, Trifolia, TrustFoundry Legal Search and Reasoning, USLege, Vasara in Claude Legal Research Engines, ranked by public Discoverability Score.
Where does BIA Edge rank in Legal Research Engines on Claude?
As of 2026-08-14, BIA Edge ranks #10 of 33 in Claude Legal Research Engines with a Discoverability Score of 0/100 (Invisible).
Where is this profile measured?
This profile uses the geography attached to the latest public registry snapshot: US. Locale tags are intentionally omitted.