Ask Claude or ChatGPT about your French residence permit, and get the official answer

If you live in France on a titre de séjour, most of your questions have an official answer, but it sits in a sheet with several situations: student or employee, Algerian or general case, first card or renewal. A general AI model blends them into one plausible paragraph. The KBrain French Administrative Procedures brain gives Claude and ChatGPT the official Service-Public.fr sheets, so the assistant answers with the rule for your situation and links to the page it used.

Questions it answers well

• "When should I apply to renew my student residence permit, and which documents do I need?"
• "Can I work as a non-EU student in France, and how many hours a year?" (the sheet says 964 hours a year without a work permit, in the general case)
• "I moved: do I have to declare my new address for my titre de séjour?"
• "What is a récépissé and what can I do with it while I wait for my card?"
• "Comment faire venir ma famille en France (regroupement familial) ?"

Why the situation matters

Service-Public.fr sheets are organised by situation. The same question about working while studying has one answer in the general case and another for Algerian nationals, who fall under a bilateral agreement. Every passage the brain returns carries its heading path (sheet > situation > chapter > case), so the assistant can keep only the rule that applies to you, or ask you which situation is yours before it answers.

What the assistant gets back

• The matching passages from the official sheets, each with its situation and heading.
• The sheet's URL on service-public.gouv.fr and the date of its last important change.
• On request, the full sheet: online services, forms, and the offices to contact (préfecture, ANEF, OFII).
• An honest "the sheets do not say" when the question is about your personal file, a local office's delays, or a case the official pages do not cover.

How to set it up

1. 1Open the French Administrative Procedures brain on KBrain and add it to your account. It is free.
2. 2Connect your KBrain MCP endpoint to Claude or ChatGPT once.
3. 3Ask your residence permit question in your own words. The assistant calls search_procedures, reads the official passages and cites the sheet.

The brain indexes the full "vosdroits" export of Service-Public.fr, published by DILA (Direction de l'information légale et administrative) under the Licence Ouverte 2.0: about 3,000 official sheets for individuals, split into some 49,000 passages that keep their situation and heading. KBrain refreshes it every week. Answers are general information from the official sheets, not legal advice.