Anthropic Legal skills

Install a community skill from a watched registry. Reads the allowlist first, fetches, shows the RAW SKILL.md (not just a summary), runs structural trust checks, runs skills-qa, and only writes files after explicit user approval. Use when the user says "install [skill]", picks install from browse, or provides a direct skill URL.

Guided customization of your regulatory practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust watched regulators, policy library index, materiality threshold, gap response process, feed configuration, or matter workspace paths. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "add a regulator", "update my watchlist", "edit my threshold", or "customize".

Build or update a long-term bar prep (or exam prep) study plan — phases, subjects weighted by weakness, daily session schedule, adaptive to session history in study-plan.yaml. Use when the user says "build a study plan", "plan my bar prep", "schedule my studying", or "how should I study for [X]".

First draft of a common clinic document — practice-area templates (asylum applications, eviction answers, protective order petitions, demand letters), jurisdiction-aware formatting, explicitly a starting point requiring student analysis and attorney review. Use when a student needs a first draft of a motion, letter, petition, declaration, or other clinic document.

Reference: shared gap- and comment-tracker framework backing /regulatory-legal:gaps and /regulatory-legal:comments. Tracks open policy gaps with remediation status, ingests gaps from policy-diff, surfaces what's open and aging, routes to owners, and notifies gap owners via Slack with per-send confirmation. Loaded by the gaps and comments skills before doing substantive work.

Search watched registries for community legal skills, showing matches with descriptions and offering to show the full SKILL.md before install. Use when the user says "browse", "search skills", "find a skill for", "what's out there for", or wants to add a new registry to the watchlist.

Student semester onboarding — clinic procedures, tool walkthrough, practice exercises before real cases. Reads the handbook the professor uploaded at setup and teaches it interactively. Use when a new clinic student says "onboard me", "I'm new to the clinic", "getting started", or at the start of each semester; pass --card for the one-page reference.

IRAC-scaffolded case analysis memo with research gaps flagged — the scaffold, not the analysis. Rule blocks are RESEARCH NEEDED, Application is STUDENT ANALYSIS prompts, Conclusion is blank. Use when a student needs to scaffold a case analysis memo, write up their analysis, or build an IRAC memo for a case.

Structural feedback on a legal writing draft (memo, brief, paper, exam essay) — organization, analysis depth, clarity, citation form. NEVER rewrites the draft. Use when the user says "feedback on my memo", "read my draft", or "critique my brief".

Professor's review queue — student output waits here for professor approval before going to clients or courts. Only active if "formal review queue" supervision style was chosen at setup; otherwise dormant. Use when the professor wants to see what's waiting for review, approve, edit-then-approve, or return an item.

Structured intake — practice-area templates, cross-area issue spotting, conflict flags, and triage classification. Produces a formatted case summary the student analyzes and the professor reviews. Does NOT decide case acceptance. Use when starting a new client intake, running an intake interview, or writing up a new client's situation.

Use this skill whenever a user specifically requests legal research or Westlaw Deep Research, asks for CoCounsel Legal or cocounsel legal support, or asks a question that requires explaining, analyzing, or synthesizing U.S. law.

Issue, refresh, release, or report on legal holds — drafts the hold notice as .docx, updates legal_hold fields in _log.yaml, and calendars the next refresh. Use when the user says "issue a hold", "refresh hold", "release hold", or asks for a portfolio-wide hold status report.

Trademark clearance first pass — knockout + similar-marks check producing a flag list, not a clearance opinion. Use when a new mark is proposed, when asked whether a mark is available or to run a knockout search, or when assessing likelihood-of-confusion factors before a full professional search. This skill never concludes a mark is clear.

Quickly determine whether a processing activity needs a PIA, a mandatory GDPR DPIA, or can proceed — surfaces privacy policy conflicts and routes to the right next step. Use when the user asks "does this need a PIA", "triage this feature", "privacy check on X", "is this okay from a privacy perspective", or describes a new data processing activity, product feature, or vendor relationship.

Diff a new or changed regulation against current privacy policy and practice — outputs a gap list and a remediation plan with owners and dates. Use when a new reg drops, the user asks "does [regulation] affect us", "gap analysis for [state privacy law]", "compliance check against [reg]", or pastes regulatory text.

Trace how a contract has changed across its base agreement and all amendments — either a summary of all changes over time, or a provision trace for a specific clause. Use when the user says "what changed in this contract over time", "show me the amendment history", "where's the latest [clause]", "how has [provision] evolved", or uploads multiple versions of an agreement.

Read VDR documents and extract issues per house categories and materiality thresholds, producing findings in house memo format. Use when user says "review the data room", "extract issues from [folder]", "diligence review", "what's in the VDR", or points at VDR documents.

Walk through a Data Subject Access Request (or deletion, portability, correction request) and draft the response — verify identity, locate data system-by-system, assess exemptions, draft the acknowledgment and substantive response letters. Use when a DSAR comes in, the user pastes an access/deletion/portability/correction request, or says "DSAR came in", "access request", "right to be forgotten", or "someone wants their data".

Review vendor AI terms — agreement, addendum, or ToS AI provisions — against your governance positions; flag training-on-data, liability, model changes, and AI policy consistency. Use when user says "review this AI agreement", "check OpenAI terms", "what did we agree to with [vendor]", "vendor sent an AI addendum", "is this AI contract okay", or attaches vendor AI terms.

Build or extend a course outline in your format, from class notes and casebook. Scaffolds — it does not write the outline for you. Use when the user says "outline [subject]", "add to my outline", "build an outline from", or points at class materials.

Build or review an element chart — a patent claim chart (infringement, invalidity, or review) or a civil element chart for any cause of action or defense — with every cell pin-cited and gap detection as the priority output. Use when the user asks for a claim chart, element chart, proof chart, infringement or invalidity contention, element-by-element mapping, or asks "what are we missing to prove [claim]".

Evaluate a skill against the Legal Skill Design Framework — thirteen design parameters (including trust-surface, freshness, schema validation, and conflict detection), three legal failure modes, and a three-band verdict (Ready / Some Concern / Material Concerns). Use when deciding whether to trust a community skill before installing it, before deploying a first-party skill to your team, or whenever the user asks "should I trust this?" or "is this skill well-designed?". Runs automatically as part of /legal-builder-hub:skill-installer.

Reference: review of an inbound vendor agreement against the team playbook in `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/CLAUDE.md`. Flags deviations, assesses risk, generates specific redline language, and routes to the right approver. Loaded by /commercial-legal:review when a vendor MSA, services agreement, or similar is detected.