> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.usecroma.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

Croma Legal tracks your organization's court cases and surfaces every new
actuación as it is published. The Legal API gives your own systems the same
view: read your portfolio of **processes**, the **actuaciones** feed across
every case, your **defendants**, aggregated **analytics**, and bulk
**exports**, all scoped to your organization and all behind one key.

```
https://api.legal.usecroma.com
```

Every endpoint is a `GET` with query parameters (exports are a `POST`) and
returns JSON under `data`. The same key also opens the
[MCP server](/legal/mcp-server), so an AI assistant can answer questions over
the portfolio with the identical tools.

<Note>
  This is a different product from the Croma public-data API at
  `api.croma.run` (court, registry and vehicle lookups across Colombia, Peru
  and Mexico). Keys are not interchangeable: Legal keys are issued from the
  Croma Legal dashboard and only work here. For public-data lookups, start at
  the [Croma API introduction](/introduction).
</Note>

## What you can read

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Processes" icon="scale-balanced" href="/legal/api-reference/list-processes">
    Your cases with status, office, filing date, the linked defendant, and your
    own custom fields. Look one up by radicado.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Actuaciones" icon="gavel" href="/legal/api-reference/list-actions">
    The organization-wide feed of filings and court events, or the timeline of
    a single case. Built for incremental syncs.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Defendants" icon="user" href="/legal/api-reference/list-defendants">
    Demandados with their case counts and any data you imported about them,
    such as medidas cautelares.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Analytics" icon="chart-simple" href="/legal/api-reference/get-analytics">
    KPIs and distributions by status, office, city, period and most active
    cases, for dashboards and reports.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Exports" icon="file-arrow-down" href="/legal/exports">
    The complete filtered dataset as CSV or JSONL, generated asynchronously and
    delivered as a download URL.
  </Card>

  <Card title="MCP server" icon="plug" href="/legal/mcp-server">
    The same data as tools for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or your own agent,
    including read-only SQL over your portfolio.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Start building

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/legal/quickstart">
    Get a key and list your processes in three steps.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Authentication" icon="key" href="/legal/authentication">
    Where keys come from and how the bearer scheme works.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API Reference" icon="code" href="/legal/api-reference/overview">
    Every endpoint with its parameters, response shape and a playground.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>