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An AI teammate for Vaquill.

Connect Vaquill and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 31 Vaquill actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about Vaquill
  • What broke in Vaquill overnight, and is it new?
  • Open a Vaquill issue for this bug with the steps from the Slack thread.
  • Summarise this week's Vaquill activity for the standup.
  • Tell me when something in Vaquill needs my attention.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Vaquill

31 Vaquill actions, picked for what you ask.

About Vaquill: Vaquill provides API access to US statutes, legal research, citation resolution, credit usage, and board-change watches.

Reads

27 in all · always allowed
  • Get Session Law
    Get complete metadata for one US state session law by provider ID or citation.
  • Get Statute Body
    Get full statute text in a selected format, optionally with a subsection tree or point-in-time…
  • List Session Laws
    List one page of a state's session laws with session, date, text-availability, and instrument…
  • Get Credit Balance
    Get the connected Vaquill account's spendable credits, USD balance, expiries, plan, lifetime usage,…
  • List Board Watches
    List board watches owned by the connected Vaquill API-key account, including delivery destination,…
  • Search US Statutes
    Search US statutes and regulations, constitutions and court rules, executive actions and Federal…
  • Get Statute Section
    Get metadata and source links for one US statute section by canonical section ID or resolvable…
  • Get Session Law Body
    Get one page of a US state session law's text, with character offsets, text hash, and…
  • Get Statute Cited By
    Find the top USC and CFR sections that cite a statute section. Costs 2 credits;
  • List Statute Changes
    List capture-bounded observed change history for a statute section.
  • Get Statutes Coverage
    Return Vaquill's authoritative live jurisdiction and corpus coverage matrix before choosing statute…
  • List Watchable Boards
    List corpus sources that can be watched, including freshness, polling cadence, retrieval health,…
  • Count Statute Sections
    Count exact sections in a legal corpus scope before enumeration.
  • Get API Credit Pricing
    Get Vaquill's live credit conversion, purchase bounds, and per-operation prices without…
  • Get Statute Enactments
    Get state session laws whose publisher affected-sections tables print this exact code section.
  • Get Statute Definitions
    Get chapter definitions governing a statute section. Costs 4 credits;

Changes

4 in all · off when Vaquill is read-only
  • Test Board Watch
    Send one synthetic delivery through a board watch's configured channel immediately.
  • Create Board Watch
    Create an active email, webhook, or dual-channel watch that immediately begins monitoring a legal…
  • Delete Board Watch
    Permanently delete a board watch and all of its delivery history. This cannot be undone.
  • Update Board Watch
    Partially update a Vaquill board watch without changing its delivery channel.

Showing 20 of 31. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Vaquill

    Open Connections, find Vaquill and paste an API key from your Vaquill account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Vaquill with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Vaquill job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Vaquill, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Questions

Vaquill and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Vaquill?

Yes. Vaquill is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Vaquill?

Open Connections, find Vaquill and paste an API key from your Vaquill account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Vaquill?

31 actions: 27 that read from Vaquill and 4 that change things in it, for example get session law, get statute body, list session laws. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Vaquill?

Yes. In Connections, set Vaquill to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Vaquill from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Vaquill jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Vaquill data safe?

Your Vaquill login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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