claude-for-legal

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-intak