Claude for Legal

Reference agents, skills, and data connectors for the legal workflows we see most — in-house commercial, privacy, product, corporate, employment, litigation, regulatory, AI governance, IP, and the learning side of the practice (law school clinics and students).

New here? Start with QUICKSTART.md — install in 60 seconds. This README is the full reference.

Everything here is available two ways from one source: install it as a Claude Cowork or Claude Code plugin, or deploy it through the Claude Managed Agents API behind your own workflow engine. Same system prompt, same skills — you choose where it runs.

Getting started in Cowork

• Install Claude Desktop
• Get access to Claude Cowork
• Follow the instructions in the video below:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/51394f0a-5277-4fe2-b81c-5c5e9ac876b5

[!IMPORTANT] Every output from these plugins is a draft for attorney review — not legal advice, not a legal conclusion, not a substitute for a lawyer. They are built with guardrails that reflect that: source attribution on every citation, conservative defaults on privilege and subjective legal calls, jurisdiction assumptions surfaced, and explicit gates before anything is filed, sent, or relied on. A lawyer reviews, verifies, and takes professional responsibility for anything that leaves the building. These plugins make that review faster; they do not replace it.

These plugins do not represent Anthropic's legal positions. They are tools that help lawyers analyze issues. Where a skill includes a checklist item, a suggested framework, a risk flag, or a characterization of case law or regulatory guidance, that is an aid to the reviewing attorney's own analysis, not a statement of Anthropic's view of the law. The law in many of these areas is unsettled and evolving. The attorney using the plugin — not the plugin, and not Anthropic — is responsible for the legal positions taken in their work product.

What's in the repo:

• Practice-area plugins covering in-house, firm, and academic legal work — each one built around a cold-start interview that learns your playbook and a CLAUDE.md practice profile that every skill reads from.
• Managed-agent cookbooks for the scheduled, eyes-on-the-feed workflows (renewal watcher, docket watcher, regulatory feed monitor, diligence grid, launch radar).
• MCP connectors across general productivity (Slack, Google Drive, Box) and legal-specific systems (Ironclad, DocuSign, iManage, Everlaw, CourtListener, and more).
• Named agents — end-to-end workflow agents (Vendor Agreement Reviewer, DSAR Responder, Termination Reviewer, Claim Chart Builder, …) with job-style names and a single command to run each one.

Agents

Each agent is named for the workflow it runs. They're the most common surface — start with the ones that match your work, then tune the underlying skill, the practice profile, and the connectors to how your team does it.

Agent	What it does	Plugin	Command
Vendor Agreement Reviewer	Reviews a vendor MSA against your playbook and produces a redline memo	commercial-legal	/commercial-legal:review
NDA Triager	GREEN/YELLOW/RED triage of inbound NDAs so only the hard ones hit a lawyer's desk	commercial-legal	/commercial-legal:review
Amendment Tracer	Traces how a contract has changed across its base agreement and every amendment	commercial-legal	/commercial-legal:amendment-history
Renewal Watcher	Scans the contract register for cancel-by and renewal deadlines	commercial-legal	scheduled agent
Deal Debrief	Weekly sweep of signed agreements with playbook deviations — prompts the attorney to log context while memory is fresh	commercial-legal	scheduled agent
Playbook Monitor	Watches the deviation log and proposes playbook updates when a clause has drifted	commercial-legal	scheduled agent
Escalation Router	Routes contract issues to the right approver and drafts the ask	commercial-legal	/commercial-legal:escalation-flagger
Tabular Diligence Review	Tabular review over a data room with one row per document and every cell cited	corporate-legal	/corporate-legal:tabular-review
Issue Extractor	Reads VDR documents and extracts issues per house categories and materiality thresholds	corporate-legal	/corporate-legal:diligence-issue-extraction
Board Consent Drafter	Drafts unanimous written consents in house format with precedent search	corporate-legal	/corporate-legal:written-consent
Material Contracts Schedule Builder	Builds the disclosure schedule from diligence findings against the purchase-agreement threshold	corporate-legal	/corporate-legal:material-contract-schedule
Entity Compliance Tracker	Computes filing deadlines across jurisdictions and entity types, runs health audits	corporate-legal	/corporate-legal:entity-compliance
Closing Checklist Driver	Tracks every condition, consent, document, and filing blocking close	corporate-legal	/corporate-legal:closing-checklist
Integration Runbook	Phased post-closing integration plan with consent tracking and weekly status	corporate-legal	/corporate-legal:integration-management
Data Room Watcher	Monitors the VDR for new uploads and posts closing checklist status on schedule	corporate-legal	scheduled agent
Termination Reviewer	Runs a proposed termination against jurisdiction-specific risk flags	employment-legal	/employment-legal:termination-review
Hire Reviewer	Reviews offer letters and restrictive covenants with a jurisdiction check	employment-legal	/employment-legal:hiring-review
Worker Classification Screener	Tests a proposed engagement against the controlling state test	employment-legal	/employment-legal:worker-classification
Leave Tracker	Monitors open leaves with FMLA/CFRA/PFL/ADA deadlines and decision-point alerts	employment-legal	scheduled agent
Investigation Lead	Opens, tracks, adds to, and summarizes internal investigation matters	employment-legal	/employment-legal:investigation-open
Policy Drafter	Drafts employment policies with state supplements where law differs	employment-legal	/employment-legal:policy-drafting
International Expansion Planner	Kicks off EOR-vs-entity planning and outside-counsel briefing for a new country	employment-legal	/employment-legal:expansion-kickoff
Wage & Hour Q&A	Jurisdiction-aware employment Q&A for the "quick question" channel	employment-legal	/employment-legal:wage-hour-qa
DSAR Responder	Drafts DSAR acknowledgments and substantive responses within statutory timelines	privacy-legal	/privacy-legal:dsar-response
DPA Reviewer	Reviews a DPA against your playbook as controller or processor	privacy-legal	/privacy-legal:dpa-review
PIA Generator	Generates a Privacy Impact Assessment in house format for a new feature or activity	privacy-legal	/privacy-legal:pia-generation
Privacy Triager	Decides whether a processing activity needs a PIA, a mandatory GDPR DPIA, or can proceed	privacy-legal	/privacy-legal:use-case-triage
Privacy Reg Gap Checker	Diffs a new or changed regulation against current privacy policy and practice	privacy-legal	/privacy-legal:reg-gap-analysis
Privacy Policy Monitor	Sweeps saved PIAs, DPA reviews, and triage results for policy drift	privacy-legal	/privacy-legal:policy-monitor
Launch Reviewer	Reviews a product launch against your risk calibration	product-legal	/product-legal:launch-review
Marketing Claims Checker	Flags copy that needs substantiation, reframing, or cutting	product-legal	/product-legal:marketing-claims-review
"Is this a problem?" Triage	Fast answer for the quick Slack question — pattern-matches your calibration	product-legal	/product-legal:is-this-a-problem
Launch Watcher	Watches the launch tracker for upcoming launches that need legal review	product-legal	scheduled agent
Reg Feed Watcher	Polls regulatory feeds and writes the Monday-morning digest	regulatory-legal	scheduled agent
On-demand Reg Check	Check regulatory feeds now and report what's new since last check	regulatory-legal	/regulatory-legal:reg-feed-watcher
Policy Diff	Diffs a specific regulatory change against the indexed policy library	regulatory-legal	/regulatory-legal:policy-diff
Gap Tracker	Open gaps tracker — what's flagged and not yet closed	regulatory-legal	/regulatory-legal:gaps
Policy Redrafter	Marked-up policy redraft closing a gap — a proposal for the policy owner's review, not a direct edit to source documents	regulatory-legal	/regulatory-legal:policy-redraft
NPRM Comment Tracker	Review open NPRM comment periods, log decisions, track deadlines	regulatory-legal	/regulatory-legal:comments
AI Use Case Triager	Classifies proposed AI use cases against your registry	ai-governance-legal	/ai-governance-legal:use-case-triage
AI Impact Assessor	Runs an AIA across the regimes in scope	ai-governance-legal	/ai-governance-legal:aia-generation
Vendor AI Reviewer	Reviews vendor AI terms for training-on-data, liability, model-change, and policy gaps	ai-governance-legal	/ai-governance-legal:vendor-ai-review
AI Reg Gap Checker	Diffs a new AI regulation against your current governance posture	ai-governance-legal	/ai-governance-legal:reg-gap-analysis
AI Policy Monitor	Sweeps saved AIAs, triage results, and vendor reviews for AI-policy drift	ai-governance-legal	/ai-governance-legal:policy-monitor
Trademark Clearance Screener	First-pass clearance with knockout check and confusion heuristics	ip-legal	/ip-legal:clearance
Cease & Desist Drafter	Drafts or triages a C&D, calibrated to your enforcement posture	ip-legal	/ip-legal:cease-desist
DMCA Takedown	Drafts a takedown, triages one received, or drafts a §512(g) counter-notice	ip-legal	/ip-legal:takedown
OSS Compliance Checker	Classifies open source licenses against your deployment model	ip-legal	/ip-legal:oss-review
FTO Triager	Structured first look at potentially blocking patents — triage, not an opinion	ip-legal	/ip-legal:fto-triage
Infringement Triager	Triage across TM / copyright / patent / trade secret — factors, not a finding	ip-legal	/ip-legal:infringement-triage
IP Clause Reviewer	Reviews assignment, ownership, license grants, warranties, and indemnities	ip-legal	/ip-legal:ip-clause-review
IP Portfolio Tracker	Registrations, renewals, maintenance fees, use declarations	ip-legal	/ip-legal:portfolio
IP Renewal Watcher	Scheduled deadline report from the IP portfolio register	ip-legal	scheduled agent
Claim Chart Builder	Element-by-element claim chart, patent or civil cause of action	litigation-legal	/litigation-legal:claim-chart
Docket Watcher	Monitors court dockets for filings and deadlines	litigation-legal	scheduled agent
Demand Letter Drafter	Drafts a demand with FRE 408 awareness and a send gate	litigation-legal	/litigation-legal:demand-draft
Demand Intake	Pre-drafting context gathering — parties, facts, basis, leverage, privilege	litigation-legal	/litigation-legal:demand-intake
Demand Received Triage	Triages an inbound demand — options, portfolio cross-check, handoff	litigation-legal	/litigation-legal:demand-received
Subpoena Triage	Classifies, scopes, and plans compliance with a new subpoena	litigation-legal	/litigation-legal:subpoena-triage
Chronology Builder	Builds or updates a chronology from declared sources and uploads	litigation-legal	/litigation-legal:chronology
Deposition Prep	Builds a deposition outline tied to case theory with docs and impeachment	litigation-legal	/litigation-legal:deposition-prep
Brief Section Drafter	Drafts a brief section in house style, consistent with case theory	litigation-legal	/litigation-legal:brief-section-drafter
Privilege Log Reviewer	First-pass privilege log review — obvious calls + flags for attorney review	litigation-legal	/litigation-legal:privilege-log-review
Legal Hold	Issue, refresh, release, or report on legal holds	litigation-legal	/litigation-legal:legal-hold
Matter Intake	Uniform intake for a new matter — writes matter.md, history.md, appends to log	litigation-legal	/litigation-legal:matter-intake
Matter Briefing	Deep briefing on one matter — ready for a GC or outside counsel call	litigation-legal	/litigation-legal:matter-briefing
Portfolio Status	Risk distribution, upcoming deadlines, stale matters	litigation-legal	/litigation-legal:portfolio-status
Outside Counsel Status	Generates weekly status-request drafts across the active portfolio	litigation-legal	/litigation-legal:oc-status
Clinic Intake	Structured client intake with cross-area issue spotting and conflict flags	legal-clinic	/legal-clinic:client-intake
Case Memo Scaffold	IRAC-scaffolded case analysis memo with research gaps flagged	legal-clinic	/legal-clinic:memo
Research Roadmap	Statutes to check, case law areas, Westlaw search terms — leads, not cites	legal-clinic	/legal-clinic:research-start
Clinic Deadline Tracker	Add, report, update, and close case deadlines with malpractice-aware warnings	legal-clinic	/legal-clinic:deadlines
Case Status Summarizer	Case status by audience — client, professor, or court-ready	legal-clinic	/legal-clinic:status
Client Letter Drafter	Routine client correspondence — appointment confirms, doc requests, updates	legal-clinic	/legal-clinic:client-letter
Student Ramp	Semester onboarding — clinic procedures, tool walkthrough, practice exercises	legal-clinic	/legal-clinic:ramp
Semester Handoff	End-of-semester case handoff memos — the mirror of ramp	legal-clinic	/legal-clinic:semester-handoff
Supervisor Review Queue	Professor's review queue (when formal review supervision is configured)	legal-clinic	/legal-clinic:supervisor-review-queue
Bar Prep Coach	Jurisdiction-aware MBE and essay practice targeted at weak subjects	law-student	/law-student:bar-prep-questions
Socratic Drill Sergeant	It asks, you answer, it pushes back — does not give you the answer	law-student	/law-student:socratic-drill
IRAC Grader	Grades your IRAC essay on structure, issue-spotting, rules, analysis	law-student	/law-student:irac-practice
Case Briefer	Brief a case in your preferred format	law-student	/law-student:case-brief
Outline Builder	Build or extend an outline in your format from class notes and casebook	law-student	/law-student:outline-builder
Cold Call Prep	Predicts professor's questions and drills them before class	law-student	/law-student:cold-call-prep
Exam Forecaster	Analyze past exams from the same professor; forecast likely emphases	law-student	/law-student:exam-forecast
Legal Writing Critic	Structural feedback on a draft — never rewrites	law-student	/law-student:legal-writing
Flashcard Drillmaster	Generate or drill flashcards — Leitner-style buckets	law-student	/law-student:flashcards
Study Planner	Long-term study plan with scheduled sessions, adaptive to session history	law-student	/law-student:study-plan
Skill Registry Browser	Search watched registries for community legal skills	legal-builder-hub	/legal-builder-hub:registry-browser
Skill Installer	Install a community skill with trust checks and skills-QA	legal-builder-hub	/legal-builder-hub:skill-installer
Skill QA	Evaluate a skill against the Legal Skill Design Framework	legal-builder-hub	/legal-builder-hub:skills-qa
Community Skill Recommender	Suggest community skills based on recent activity in other plugins	legal-builder-hub	/legal-builder-hub:related-skills-surfacer
Community Skill Updater	Check for updates to installed community skills	legal-builder-hub	/legal-builder-hub:auto-updater
Registry Sync	Periodic check of watched registries for new and updated skills	legal-builder-hub	scheduled agent

For Managed Agent deployment — agent.yaml, leaf-worker subagents, steering-event examples, and per-agent security notes — see managed-agent-cookbooks/.

Repository Layout

commercial-legal/         # in-house commercial — vendor/NDA/SaaS review, renewals, escalations
corporate-legal/          # M&A diligence, closing checklists, board consents, entity compliance
employment-legal/         # hire/term review, worker classification, leave, investigations
privacy-legal/            # DPA, DSAR, PIA, privacy triage, policy monitor
product-legal/            # launch review, marketing claims, "is this a problem?" triage
regulatory-legal/         # reg feed watcher, policy diff, gap tracker, NPRM comments
ai-governance-legal/      # AI use-case triage, AIAs, vendor AI review, AI reg gap-check
ip-legal/                 # trademark clearance, FTO, C&D, DMCA, OSS, IP clauses, portfolio
litigation-legal/         # portfolio, matters, holds, demands, depo prep, claim charts
legal-clinic/             # clinic setup, student ramp, intake, deadlines, memos, handoffs
law-student/              # Socratic drilling, outlining, IRAC, bar prep, flashcards
legal-builder-hub/        # community skill discovery and install with a trust gate
external_plugins/         # partner-built plugins maintained by their vendors
  cocounsel-legal/        # Thomson Reuters — Westlaw Deep Research via the CoCounsel Legal MCP
managed-agent-cookbooks/  # Claude Managed Agent cookbooks — one dir per scheduled agent
  diligence-grid/
  docket-watcher/
  launch-radar/
  reg-monitor/
  renewal-watcher/
scripts/                  # deploy-managed-agent.sh · validate.py · orchestrate.py · lint-tool-scope.py · test-cookbooks.sh
.claude-plugin/
  marketplace.json        # plugin registry

Each plugin directory has the same shape:

<plugin>/
  .claude-plugin/plugin.json
  CLAUDE.md               # template practice profile — filled in by /<plugin>:cold-start-interview
  README.md
  skills/                 # skills — each is a /<plugin>:<skill> slash command
  agents/                 # scheduled agents (if any)
  hooks/                  # pre- and post-tool hooks (if any)

Getting Started

Claude Cowork

In Cowork:

1. Open the Cowork tab.
2. Click Customize in the left sidebar.
3. Click Browse plugins and install the ones you want, or upload a custom plugin file (any plugin directory zipped up).

After install, skills fire automatically when relevant, slash commands are available via /, and the scheduled agents run on the cadence set in their frontmatter.

Claude Code

# Add the marketplace (use the absolute path to this repo or a GitHub URL)
/plugin marketplace add <path-to-this-repo>

# Install a plugin — pick the ones that match your practice
/plugin install commercial-legal@claude-for-legal
/plugin install privacy-legal@claude-for-legal
/plugin install corporate-legal@claude-for-legal

# Restart Claude Code, then run setup for each plugin you installed.
# This writes your practice profile to ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/<plugin>/CLAUDE.md
/commercial-legal:cold-start-interview
/privacy-legal:cold-start-interview
/corporate-legal:cold-start-interview

Run the cold-start interview first. Every other skill in a plugin reads from the practice profile it writes. Skipping setup is the single most common reason a skill produces generic output. The interview takes 10–20 minutes per plugin and will ask you to point at seed documents (a signed MSA, a playbook, a prior review memo — whatever fits the plugin). More seed material is better; a quick start option is available if you want to be productive in 2 minutes and refine later.

Start by connecting a research tool. Everything else is better with one, and citations are unverified without one. See MCP Connectors below for the full list — CourtListener, Trellis, Descrybe, and Solve Intelligence are the research tools the citation guardrails look for.

Updates: /plugin update.

Claude Managed Agents

For the scheduled agents — regulatory feed monitor, renewal watcher, docket watcher, diligence grid, launch radar — deploy behind your own orchestrator:

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...
scripts/deploy-managed-agent.sh reg-monitor
scripts/deploy-managed-agent.sh renewal-watcher
scripts/deploy-managed-agent.sh docket-watcher
scripts/deploy-managed-agent.sh diligence-grid
scripts/deploy-managed-agent.sh launch-radar

Each template under managed-agent-cookbooks/ references the same system prompt and skills as its plugin counterpart. The deploy script resolves file references, uploads skills, creates leaf-worker subagents, and POSTs the orchestrator to /v1/agents. See scripts/orchestrate.py for a reference event loop that routes handoff_request events between agents via your own orchestration layer.

Research Preview: subagent delegation (callable_agents) is a preview capability and supports a single delegation level. See per-agent READMEs for security tier and handoff guidance.

How It Fits Together

	What it is	Where it lives
Plugins	Self-contained practice-area bundles — skills, agents, hooks, and a template practice profile. Install the ones you need.	<plugin>/
Skills	Domain expertise, conventions, and step-by-step methods Claude draws on automatically when relevant — and slash actions you trigger explicitly: /commercial-legal:review, /privacy-legal:dsar-response, /litigation-legal:claim-chart.	<plugin>/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md
Agents	Scheduled or event-driven workflows (renewal watcher, docket watcher, reg-change monitor). Runs in the background, posts to a channel or writes a file.	<plugin>/agents/
Practice profile	Plain-English CLAUDE.md describing your playbook, escalation rules, and house style. Every skill reads from it.	~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/<plugin>/CLAUDE.md
Connectors	MCP servers that wire Claude to your data — CLM, DMS, e-discovery, research platforms, productivity.	.mcp.json (per plugin)
Managed-agent cookbooks	agent.yaml + depth-1 subagents + steering examples for headless deployment.	managed-agent-cookbooks/<slug>/

Everything is markdown and JSON. No build step.

Vertical Plugins

Grouped by where the work sits. Each plugin's cold-start interview is what tailors it to your team — start there.

Transactional & advisory

Plugin	What it adds
commercial-legal	Playbook-aware review of vendor agreements, NDAs, and SaaS subscriptions. Amendment tracing. Renewal register with cancel-by alerts. Escalation routing. Stakeholder summaries.
corporate-legal	M&A diligence with tabular review and citation-per-cell. Disclosure schedules, closing checklists, written consents, board minutes. Entity compliance tracker. Post-close integration.
privacy-legal	Privacy triage (PIA vs DPIA vs proceed), PIA generation, DPA review as controller or processor, DSAR response. Policy monitor watches drift between policy and practice.
product-legal	Launch review against house risk calibration. Marketing claims check. "Is this a problem?" triage for Slack questions. Feature risk assessment.
employment-legal	Hire and termination review with jurisdiction-specific flags. Worker classification. Leave tracker (FMLA/CFRA/PFL/ADA). Internal investigations. Policy drafting with state supplements.
ai-governance-legal	AI use-case triage against your registry. Impact assessments across regimes in scope. Vendor AI review. Reg-to-policy gap analysis.
regulatory-legal	Regulatory feed watcher, policy diff, gaps tracker, NPRM comment-period tracker. The Monday-morning digest your team actually reads.
ip-legal	Trademark clearance, FTO triage, C&D drafting and triage, DMCA takedown and counter-notice, OSS compliance, IP clause review, portfolio tracking.

Litigation

Plugin	What it adds
litigation-legal	Works two surfaces. In-house/portfolio: matter intake, portfolio status, legal holds, outside counsel status, demands. Firm/solo: chronology building, claim charts (patent and civil), deposition prep, privilege log review, brief drafting.

Learning & practice

Plugin	What it adds
law-student	Socratic drilling, case briefing, outline building, IRAC grading, cold-call prep, flashcards, bar prep, exam forecasting, study planning. Learning mode, not answer mode — it never writes the answer for you.
legal-clinic	Professor setup and student semester ramp. Per-practice-area supervisor guide with pedagogy posture (assist / guide / teach). Structured intake with cross-area issue spotting. Deadline tracking with malpractice-aware caution. Memo scaffolds, client letters (routine + plain-language), semester handoffs. Built within ABA Formal Op. 512.

Ecosystem

Plugin	What it adds
legal-builder-hub	Community skill discovery and install with a real trust layer — watched registries, a QA framework (/legal-builder-hub:skills-qa), SHA-pinned updates, and a mandatory trust check before anything lands in your environment.

External / partner-built

Plugins under external_plugins/ are built and maintained by their vendors. They install from this marketplace like any other plugin, but the vendor owns the code, the connector, and the support channel.

Plugin	Built by	What it adds
cocounsel-legal	Thomson Reuters	Westlaw Deep Research with fully cited reports — caselaw, statutes, regulations, Practical Law, and secondary sources across up to three U.S. jurisdictions per run. Requires a CoCounsel Legal subscription with the MCP connector enabled. Support: cocounselsupport@tr.com.

The trust layer for community legal skills

The community is building legal skills fast — registries like LegalOps Consulting's lpm-skills and Lawvable already list dozens. But nobody certifies community skills, and a lawyer installing a random skill from GitHub is installing code that runs with access to their matter files, their practice profile, and their research connectors.

legal-builder-hub gives the ecosystem the trust layer it's missing:

• Security review — hidden-content scan, injection detection, structural trust check on every install
• Allowlist — restrictive-by-default source gate (registries, publishers, connectors, licenses)
• License gate — deployment-context-aware license policy (personal / firm-internal / product-embedding)
• Freshness gate — tracks whether bundled reference content (regulations, statutes, procedures) has passed its verification window, and warns at invocation
• Re-scan at update — a skill that was clean at v1.0 and poisoned at v1.1 gets caught
• Install log — an auditable record of what's installed, from where, under what license, with what review verdict

The allowlist is restrictive by default. Permissive mode is an explicit choice. A non-lawyer gets routed to their attorney contact, not an "install anyway" button.

Community skills go through the same design review (/legal-builder-hub:skills-qa) as the first-party plugins. If you build for lawyers, run the QA against your own skill before publishing. It's the review a lawyer would do if they could read code.

MCP Connectors

[!IMPORTANT] Connect a research tool first. Every plugin ships with legal research connectors already configured — CourtListener, Trellis, Descrybe, Solve Intelligence, and others depending on practice area. You authorize them once, and from then on Claude pulls from authoritative sources and verifies its citations against current databases instead of relying on training knowledge. Citations that come through a research connector are tagged with the source. Citations from model knowledge alone are flagged [verify] and, if no research tool is connected at all, the reviewer note above the deliverable records that sources weren't verified so you know to check. The connectors are what make the cites trustworthy — set them up before you set up anything else.

These plugins ship connectors for the systems legal teams live in. A connector gives Claude the ability to read from and (where scoped) write to your data; the skills and commands use them.

Connector	What it gives Claude	Plugins	Notes
Slack	Read channels, search, send messages and canvases	all plugins	Your workspace
Google Drive	Read docs, sheets, slides; fetch by link	all plugins	Your account
CoCounsel Legal (Thomson Reuters)	Westlaw Deep Research — cited reports across caselaw, statutes, regulations, Practical Law	cocounsel-legal	Customer subscription; OAuth
Box	Read files and folders in VDRs and matter rooms	corporate-legal	Your tenant
Ironclad	Read the contract register, renewal dates, clauses	commercial-legal	Customer subscription
DocuSign / DocuSign CLM	Envelope status, executed contracts, CLM metadata	commercial-legal	Customer subscription
iManage	Read from the DMS — matter workspaces, document versions	commercial-legal, corporate-legal	Customer subscription
Everlaw	E-discovery productions, tagged sets, chronologies	litigation-legal	Customer subscription
CourtListener	Federal dockets and opinions	legal-clinic, ip-legal, litigation-legal, law-student	Public; optional API key
Trellis	State court dockets and motions	litigation-legal	Customer subscription
Aurora	Clinic-style matter management and calendaring	litigation-legal	Customer subscription
Definely	In-document drafting and defined-terms checks	commercial-legal, corporate-legal	Customer subscription
Lawve AI	Contract review assist and clause libraries	legal-builder-hub	Customer subscription
Courtroom5	Self-represented litigant workflow	legal-clinic	Customer subscription
Descrybe	Case law research and summarization	legal-clinic, ip-legal, law-student	Customer subscription
Solve Intelligence	Patent drafting and prosecution	corporate-legal, ip-legal	Customer subscription
TopCounsel	Matter routing and outside counsel panel	commercial-legal, corporate-legal, litigation-legal	Customer subscription
Linear	Launch tracker, issue tracking	product-legal	Customer workspace
Atlassian (Jira)	Launch tracker, issue tracking	product-legal	Customer workspace
Asana	Launch tracker, project tracking	product-legal	Customer workspace

Connectors marked "customer subscription" need the customer's own account and API key. Configure them in each plugin's .mcp.json or via claude mcp in your Claude Code setup.

Building a connector? See CONNECTORS.md for what a good legal MCP server looks like and how to submit yours for inclusion.

Claude for Microsoft 365

Lawyers live in Word and Excel. Every contract-touching skill in this repo is authored to work in the Claude for Word sidebar, with tracked changes as the output mode. That's commercial-legal:review (vendor agreements, NDAs, SaaS subscriptions), commercial-legal:amendment-history, ip-legal:ip-clause-review, ai-governance-legal:vendor-ai-review, privacy-legal:dpa-review, and the diligence extraction in corporate-legal. A reviewer accepts or rejects each change exactly as they would for a human markup — numbering, defined terms, cross-references, and styles are preserved.

The Excel-facing skills produce workbooks that open cleanly: corporate-legal:tabular-review writes a multi-sheet .xlsx with a sources sheet, litigation-legal:claim-chart writes an element-by-element claim chart with citation columns, corporate-legal:entity-compliance writes the compliance register with deadline columns, and commercial-legal:renewal-tracker exports the renewal register sorted by cancel-by date.

Install Claude for Microsoft 365 from Microsoft AppSource. Once installed, the skills from any plugin you've enabled are available from the sidebar via /, and connectors are reachable from the same surface. A single thread can span Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

For IT admins deploying the add-in against your own cloud (Vertex AI, Bedrock, or an internal gateway) rather than Anthropic's API, see the separate claude-for-msft-365-install tooling.

Making It Yours

These are reference templates. They get better when you tune them to how your team works — and the customization mechanism is the plugin itself, not a config file buried in a repo.

• Run the cold-start interview. It is the customization mechanism. It asks how your practice works, reads your seed documents, and writes your practice profile. Every other skill reads from that profile. A /commercial-legal:cold-start-interview with five signed MSAs, your playbook, and your escalation matrix will make the review skills noticeably sharper.
• Edit the practice profile. Your profile lives at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/<plugin>/CLAUDE.md. Edit it directly for small fixes — a wrong escalation threshold, a new integration, a policy update. It survives plugin updates.
• Re-run setup. /<plugin>:cold-start-interview again for a full re-interview when your practice shifts materially (new jurisdiction, new CLM, new policy).
• Swap connectors. Point .mcp.json at your CLM, DMS, e-discovery platform, launch tracker, HRIS. Skills fall back gracefully when a connector isn't configured — no silent no-ops.
• Bring your playbook and templates. Drop your terminology, house style, and branded templates into the plugin's CLAUDE.md and references/. The skills will pick them up.
• Fork skills for house style. Every skill is a markdown file under skills/. Edit the steps, the gates, the output format.
• Add scheduled agents. The agents under <plugin>/agents/ are markdown with a cron-style schedule. Add your own for the watchers your team needs.

No build step. Everything is markdown and JSON.

Skill & Command Reference

The full map across all plugins. The cold-start interview is the first thing to run in any plugin.

ai-governance-legal

Command	Skill	What it does
/ai-governance-legal:cold-start-interview	cold-start-interview	Cold-start — learns your AI governance practice
/ai-governance-legal:ai-inventory	ai-inventory	EU AI Act per-system inventory — track each system's role and risk tier
/ai-governance-legal:use-case-triage	use-case-triage	Classify AI use case — approved, conditional, or no
/ai-governance-legal:aia-generation	aia-generation	Run an AI impact assessment in house format
/ai-governance-legal:vendor-ai-review	vendor-ai-review	Review vendor AI terms against governance positions
/ai-governance-legal:reg-gap-analysis	reg-gap-analysis	Diff a new AI regulation against your governance posture
/ai-governance-legal:policy-monitor	policy-monitor	Keep the AI policy current with practice
/ai-governance-legal:policy-starter	policy-starter	Draft a firm AI usage policy from published model policies, adapted to your practice profile
/ai-governance-legal:matter-workspace	matter-workspace	Manage matter workspaces (practice-level)

legal-builder-hub

Command	Skill	What it does
/legal-builder-hub:cold-start-interview	cold-start-interview	Practice profile interview and starter-pack recommendation
/legal-builder-hub:registry-browser	registry-browser	Search watched registries for community legal skills
/legal-builder-hub:skill-installer	skill-installer	Install a community skill with trust checks
/legal-builder-hub:skills-qa	skills-qa	Evaluate a skill against the Design Framework
/legal-builder-hub:related-skills-surfacer	related-skills-surfacer	Suggest community skills from activity in other plugins
/legal-builder-hub:auto-updater	auto-updater	Check for updates to installed community skills
/legal-builder-hub:disable	skill-manager	Disable a community skill without removing files
/legal-builder-hub:uninstall	skill-manager	Uninstall a community skill installed via the hub
scheduled	registry-sync (agent)	Periodic check of watched registries for updates

legal-clinic

Command	Skill	What it does
/legal-clinic:cold-start-interview	cold-start-interview	Professor setup — areas, jurisdiction, supervision style
/legal-clinic:build-guide	build-guide	Professor practice-area guide — intake, pedagogy posture, review gates
/legal-clinic:ramp	ramp	Student semester onboarding with practice exercises
/legal-clinic:client-intake	client-intake	Structured intake with cross-area issue spotting
/legal-clinic:client-comms-log	client-comms-log	Log a client communication — append-only per-case record
/legal-clinic:research-start	research-start	Research roadmap — statutes, case law, search terms
/legal-clinic:memo	memo	IRAC-scaffolded analysis memo with research gaps flagged
/legal-clinic:draft	draft	First draft of a common clinic document
/legal-clinic:client-letter	client-letter · plain-language-letters	Routine client correspondence from templates
/legal-clinic:status	status	Case status by audience — client, professor, court-ready
/legal-clinic:deadlines	deadlines	Track case deadlines with malpractice-aware warnings
/legal-clinic:supervisor-review-queue	supervisor-review-queue	Professor's review queue (if formal supervision)
/legal-clinic:semester-handoff	semester-handoff	End-of-semester case handoff memos

commercial-legal

Command	Skill	What it does
/commercial-legal:cold-start-interview	cold-start-interview	Cold-start — learn your commercial contracts practice
/commercial-legal:review	vendor-agreement-review · nda-review · saas-msa-review	Review vendor agreement, NDA, or SaaS subscription
/commercial-legal:amendment-history	amendment-history	Trace contract changes across base and amendments
/commercial-legal:renewal-tracker	renewal-tracker	Show contracts with cancel-by deadlines within 90 days
/commercial-legal:escalation-flagger	escalation-flagger	Route a contract issue and draft the ask
/commercial-legal:review-proposals	(internal)	Review and approve pending playbook update proposals
/commercial-legal:matter-workspace	matter-workspace	Manage matter workspaces (practice-level)
—	stakeholder-summary	Translates a review into a business-stakeholder summary
scheduled	renewal-watcher (agent)	Weekly sweep of the renewal register
scheduled	deal-debrief (agent)	Weekly surface of signed agreements with deviations
scheduled	playbook-monitor (agent)	Proposes playbook updates when a clause has drifted

corporate-legal

Command	Skill	What it does
/corporate-legal:cold-start-interview	cold-start-interview	House cold-start, with optional --new-deal kickoff
/corporate-legal:tabular-review	tabular-review	Tabular review — one row per document, every cell cited
/corporate-legal:diligence-issue-extraction	diligence-issue-extraction	Extract issues from VDR documents per house thresholds
/corporate-legal:material-contract-schedule	material-contract-schedule	Build material contracts disclosure schedule
/corporate-legal:closing-checklist	closing-checklist	What's blocking close with critical path
/corporate-legal:written-consent	written-consent	Draft board or committee consent in house format
/corporate-legal:entity-compliance	entity-compliance	Entity compliance tracker across jurisdictions
/corporate-legal:integration-management	integration-management	Post-closing integration tracker with consent tracking
/corporate-legal:matter-workspace	matter-workspace	Manage matter workspaces (practice-level)
—	board-minutes	Drafts board or committee minutes in house format
—	deal-team-summary	Aggregates diligence findings into a deal briefing
—	ai-tool-handoff	Detects Luminance/Kira, QAs bulk-tool output
scheduled	dataroom-watcher (agent)	Monitors VDR uploads and posts checklist status

employment-legal

Command	Skill	What it does
/employment-legal:cold-start-interview	cold-start-interview	Cold-start — learns jurisdictions and escalation rules
/employment-legal:wage-hour-qa	wage-hour-qa	Jurisdiction-aware wage/hour and employment Q&A
/employment-legal:hiring-review	hiring-review	Review offer letter and restrictive covenants
/employment-legal:termination-review	termination-review	Termination review with high-risk flag detection
/employment-legal:worker-classification	worker-classification	Classify a proposed engagement against the state test
/employment-legal:policy-drafting	policy-drafting	Draft employment policy with state supplements
/employment-legal:leave-tracker	leave-tracker	Check open leaves for deadline alerts
/employment-legal:log-leave	log-leave	Add a new leave to the leave register
/employment-legal:investigation-open	internal-investigation	Open a new internal investigation matter
/employment-legal:investigation-add	internal-investigation	Add data to an open investigation — docs, notes
/employment-legal:investigation-memo	internal-investigation	Draft or update the privileged investigation memo
/employment-legal:investigation-query	internal-investigation	Ask questions against an open investigation log
/employment-legal:investigation-summary	internal-investigation	Draft audience-specific summary from investigation memo
/employment-legal:expansion-kickoff	international-expansion	Kick off expansion planning for a new country
/employment-legal:expansion-update	international-expansion	Update status of an in-progress expansion project
/employment-legal:matter-workspace	matter-workspace	Manage matter workspaces (practice-level)
—	handbook-updates	Diffs handbook changes and flags state supplement impacts
scheduled	leave-tracker (agent)	Weekly monitor of open leaves with hard deadlines

ip-legal

Command	Skill	What it does
/ip-legal:cold-start-interview	cold-start-interview	Cold-start — learn your IP practice and posture
/ip-legal:clearance	clearance	Trademark clearance first pass — knockout + similar marks
/ip-legal:fto-triage	fto-triage	Freedom-to-operate triage, not an FTO opinion
/ip-legal:invention-intake	invention-intake	Invention disclosure first-pass screen — novelty, obviousness, §101, bar dates
/ip-legal:cease-desist	cease-desist	Draft a C&D or triage one you received
/ip-legal:takedown	takedown	DMCA notice, response triage, or §512(g) counter-notice
/ip-legal:infringement-triage	infringement-triage	Infringement triage across all four IP rights
/ip-legal:ip-clause-review	ip-clause-review	Review IP clauses — assignment, license, warranties
/ip-legal:oss-review	oss-review	Open source license compliance check
/ip-legal:portfolio	portfolio	Track IP portfolio deadlines and renewals
/ip-legal:matter-workspace	matter-workspace	Manage matter workspaces (practice-level)
scheduled	ip-renewal-watcher (agent)	Weekly report of IP portfolio deadlines

litigation-legal

Command	Skill	What it does
/litigation-legal:cold-start-interview	cold-start-interview	Cold-start — risk, landscape, house brief style
/litigation-legal:matter-intake	matter-intake	Intake a new matter — writes matter.md and history
/litigation-legal:matter-briefing	matter-briefing	Deep briefing on one matter for a call
/litigation-legal:matter-update	matter-update	Append a dated event to a matter's history
/litigation-legal:portfolio-status	portfolio-status	Portfolio rollup — risk, deadlines, stale matters
/litigation-legal:matter-close	matter-close	Close a matter — archive, retain record
/litigation-legal:matter-workspace	matter-workspace	Manage matter workspaces (practice-level)
/litigation-legal:demand-intake	demand-intake	Pre-drafting context — parties, facts, leverage
/litigation-legal:demand-draft	demand-draft	Draft demand letter with FRE 408 gate and .docx output
/litigation-legal:demand-received	demand-received	Triage inbound demand — options, portfolio cross-check
/litigation-legal:subpoena-triage	subpoena-triage	Triage subpoena — scope, burden, privilege, plan
/litigation-legal:legal-hold	legal-hold	Issue, refresh, release, or report on legal holds
/litigation-legal:oc-status	oc-status	Weekly status-request emails to outside counsel
/litigation-legal:claim-chart	claim-chart	Element chart — patent or civil cause of action
/litigation-legal:chronology	chronology	Build or update a chronology from sources and uploads
/litigation-legal:deposition-prep	deposition-prep	Deposition outline tied to case theory
/litigation-legal:privilege-log-review	privilege-log-review	First-pass privilege log review with flags
/litigation-legal:brief-section-drafter	brief-section-drafter	Draft a brief section in house style
scheduled	docket-watcher (agent)	Monitors court dockets for filings and deadlines

privacy-legal

Command	Skill	What it does
/privacy-legal:cold-start-interview	cold-start-interview	Cold-start — learns your privacy practice
/privacy-legal:use-case-triage	use-case-triage	Determine PIA vs GDPR DPIA vs proceed
/privacy-legal:pia-generation	pia-generation	Generate a Privacy Impact Assessment in house format
/privacy-legal:dpa-review	dpa-review	Review a DPA — auto-detects controller vs processor
/privacy-legal:dsar-response	dsar-response	Walk a DSAR and draft response — verify, locate, assess
/privacy-legal:reg-gap-analysis	reg-gap-analysis	Diff a regulation against current policy and practice
/privacy-legal:policy-monitor	policy-monitor	Keep the privacy policy current with practice
/privacy-legal:matter-workspace	matter-workspace	Manage matter workspaces (practice-level)

product-legal

Command	Skill	What it does
/product-legal:cold-start-interview	cold-start-interview	Cold-start — connects launch tracker, learns calibration
/product-legal:is-this-a-problem	is-this-a-problem	Fast "is this a problem?" answer for quick questions
/product-legal:launch-review	launch-review	Full launch review against framework and calibration
/product-legal:marketing-claims-review	marketing-claims-review	Review marketing copy for claims that need work
/product-legal:matter-workspace	matter-workspace	Manage matter workspaces (practice-level)
—	feature-risk-assessment	Deep-dive risk on a single feature when launch review flags
scheduled	launch-watcher (agent)	Monitors launch tracker for upcoming reviews

regulatory-legal

Command	Skill	What it does
/regulatory-legal:cold-start-interview	cold-start-interview	Cold-start — watchlist, policy index, materiality
/regulatory-legal:reg-feed-watcher	reg-feed-watcher	Check regulatory feeds now and report what's new
/regulatory-legal:policy-diff	policy-diff	Diff a regulatory change against the policy library
/regulatory-legal:gaps	gap-surfacer	Open gaps tracker — what's flagged and not closed
/regulatory-legal:policy-redraft	policy-redraft	Marked-up policy redraft closing a gap — proposal for the policy owner's review
/regulatory-legal:comments	(tracker)	Review open NPRM comment periods and deadlines
/regulatory-legal:matter-workspace	matter-workspace	Manage matter workspaces (practice-level)
scheduled	reg-change-monitor (agent)	Scheduled regulatory feed sweep with materiality filter

law-student

Command	Skill	What it does
/law-student:cold-start-interview	cold-start-interview	About-you interview — classes, bar, learning style
/law-student:socratic-drill	socratic-drill	Socratic drill — it asks, you answer, it pushes back
/law-student:case-brief	case-brief	Brief a case in your preferred format
/law-student:outline-builder	outline-builder	Build or extend an outline in your format
/law-student:irac-practice	irac-practice	Grade IRAC essay — structure, issues, rules, analysis
/law-student:legal-writing	legal-writing	Structural feedback on your writing — never rewrites
/law-student:cold-call-prep	cold-call-prep	Predict professor's questions and drill them
/law-student:bar-prep-questions	bar-prep-questions	MBE or essay questions targeted at weak subjects
/law-student:flashcards	flashcards	Generate or drill flashcards — Leitner-style
/law-student:exam-forecast	exam-forecast	Analyze past exams to forecast likely emphases
/law-student:study-plan	study-plan	Build or update a long-term study plan
/law-student:session	study-plan	Run a focused N-question session; update the plan

cocounsel-legal (Thomson Reuters)

Command	Skill	What it does
/cocounsel-legal:deep-research	deep-research	Run Westlaw Deep Research — start, poll, and present a fully cited report

Contributing

Everything here is markdown and JSON. Fork, edit, PR.

• New skill → add it under <plugin>/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md with the frontmatter the existing skills use (name, description, argument-hint). Keep the description under 1024 characters — it's the trigger signal. The skill is invokable as /<plugin>:<skill-name>. Mark pure-reference skills user-invocable: false.
• New agent → add <plugin>/agents/<name>.md with scheduling frontmatter and the system prompt. Add a matching managed-agent-cookbooks/<name>/ if you want headless deployment.
• Community skills → use /legal-builder-hub:skill-installer to test a community skill in your environment. The hub runs /legal-builder-hub:skills-qa against every skill before installing — it scores the skill against the Legal Skill Design Framework (nine design parameters, three legal failure modes, a trust-surface check) and rejects anything that fails.
• Validate cookbooks before pushing → bash scripts/test-cookbooks.sh dry-runs every managed-agent cookbook and lints orchestrator tool scope.

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Copyright 2026 Anthropic PBC.