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alirezarezvani/claude-skills
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Structures a legal clinic client intake interview and produces a case summary with cross-area issue spotting, conflict flags and triage classification.
$ npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill client-intake -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install anthropics/claude-for-legal client-intake --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/legal-clinic/skills/client-intake .claude/skills/client-intake && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "client-intake" agent skill from https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/main/legal-clinic/skills/client-intake into .claude/skills/client-intake/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "client-intake", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/main/legal-clinic/skills/client-intakeType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill client-intake -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install anthropics/claude-for-legal client-intake --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/legal-clinic/skills/client-intake .agents/skills/client-intake && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "client-intake" agent skill from https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/main/legal-clinic/skills/client-intake into .agents/skills/client-intake/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "client-intake", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill client-intake -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install anthropics/claude-for-legal client-intake --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/legal-clinic/skills/client-intake .cursor/skills/client-intake && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "client-intake" agent skill from https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/main/legal-clinic/skills/client-intake into .cursor/skills/client-intake/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "client-intake", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal.git --path legal-clinic/skills/client-intake--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill client-intake -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install anthropics/claude-for-legal client-intake --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/legal-clinic/skills/client-intake .gemini/skills/client-intake && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "client-intake" agent skill from https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/main/legal-clinic/skills/client-intake into .gemini/skills/client-intake/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "client-intake", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install anthropics/claude-for-legal client-intakeInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill client-intake -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/legal-clinic/skills/client-intake .github/skills/client-intake && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "client-intake" agent skill from https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/main/legal-clinic/skills/client-intake into .github/skills/client-intake/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "client-intake", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill client-intake -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install anthropics/claude-for-legal client-intake --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/legal-clinic/skills/client-intake .opencode/skills/client-intake && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "client-intake" agent skill from https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/main/legal-clinic/skills/client-intake into .opencode/skills/client-intake/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "client-intake", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
client-intakeStructures a legal clinic client intake interview and produces a case summary with cross-area issue spotting, conflict flags and triage classification.
Built for law school clinics, this skill guides a student through intake interviews and writes up the result, so time goes to analysis instead of transcription. It loads clinic settings from a legal-clinic configuration file (practice areas, intake templates, supervision style, jurisdiction and flag triggers), checks for a supervisor's practice-area guide to use in place of the generic questions, and routes the client's story to the right practice-area template.
While interviewing, it listens for issues that cross practice areas, such as a housing client mentioning immigration status, and runs conflict flags and a triage classification. The output is a formatted case summary labeled as AI-assisted, with verification prompts and supervision routing for the professor. It does not decide whether the clinic accepts the case, which stays with the student's analysis and the professor's judgment.
7 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 4a6c651. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Legal Clinic Client Intake loads about 3.2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 88 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,087 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
The full file from anthropics/claude-for-legal at commit 4a6c651, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© anthropics). 1,087 words, ~3,188 tokens.
.claude/skills/client-intake/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → practice areas, intake templates, supervision style, flag triggers./legal-clinic:client-intakeIntake is one of the biggest bottlenecks in clinics. A student might spend 45 minutes interviewing, another hour writing it up, more time spotting the issues. Meanwhile the waitlist grows.
This skill structures the conversation, produces the write-up, spots issues across practice areas, and flags conflicts — so the student's time goes to analysis, not transcription.
What it doesn't do: decide whether to take the case. That's the student's analysis and the professor's judgment. Claude accelerates the information-gathering and structuring, not the lawyering.
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → practice areas, intake templates (per practice area if multiple), supervision style, jurisdiction, flag triggers.
Check for a practice-area guide at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/guides/<practice-area>.md. If one exists, use its intake questions, red flags, and good-fit criteria instead of the generic defaults below. If one doesn't exist, use the generic intake and note at the end of the intake summary: "This was a generic intake — your supervisor can tailor the questions for your clinic type with /legal-clinic:build-guide."
When the intake starts before the practice area is routed (Step 1 of the workflow below), re-check for the guide after routing — the guide path depends on which practice area the intake landed in.
Which practice area does this intake start in? The client may not know — they know their problem, not the legal category.
"Tell me what's going on — what brought you to the clinic today?"
From the answer, route to the appropriate intake template. If the clinic handles multiple areas and the problem spans them (housing client mentions immigration status, family client mentions domestic violence), note all relevant areas — cross-area issue spotting is a feature, not a bug.
Each practice area asks different questions. Use the template from ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md for this area. Defaults if none provided:
Immigration:
Housing:
Family:
Consumer:
While running the practice-area template, listen for issues outside that area:
| Client says | Also flags |
|---|---|
| "I'm worried about my immigration status" | Immigration issue — even in a housing intake |
| "My partner [threatening behavior]" | DV / family law / protective order — even in a consumer intake |
| "I can't work because of my injury" | Possible benefits/disability claim |
| "They're taking money from my paycheck" | Garnishment — consumer/employment overlap |
| "The landlord said he'd call ICE" | Housing + immigration + possible retaliation claim |
Note every cross-area issue in the summary. The clinic may handle it, refer it, or both — that's the professor's call. The student should see it.
Per whatever conflict-check process ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md describes. At minimum:
Flag for professor review. Don't resolve the conflict — surface it.
Not a case-acceptance decision — a triage input:
| Classification | Means |
|---|---|
| Urgent | Deadline in days, safety issue, irreversible harm imminent |
| Time-sensitive | Deadline in weeks, harm ongoing but not immediately irreversible |
| Standard | No immediate deadline, can queue normally |
| May be out of scope | Issue is outside clinic's practice areas — flag for referral assessment |
Per ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md supervision style and flag triggers. If formal queue or configurable flags are enabled, and a trigger is present (deadline mentioned, DV indicator, immigration status at issue, etc.), note the flag.
If the intake surfaces any timeline deadline (answer due, hearing, statute-of-limitations cutoff, cure period, filing window, notice window, ICE check-in, removal hearing, eviction court date, protective order renewal), emit a copy-paste-ready /legal-clinic:deadlines --add ... block as part of the intake output. This is a required deliverable, not a suggestion — the intake identifies deadlines, and the student shouldn't have to re-transcribe them into the deadline skill.
Format each deadline as a fenced code block the student can copy, with every field pre-populated from the intake:
/legal-clinic:deadlines --add
case=[case slug or client-last-name-keyword]
type=[response|hearing|statute-of-limitations|discovery|cure-period|filing-window|notice|other]
description="[one-line description of what is due]"
due=[VERIFY — student + supervisor compute from triggering event]
source="[triggering event + statute/rule cite, e.g., 'UD complaint served 2026-05-04, CCP § 1167']"
owner=[student name]
warnings=[14,7,3,1]Rules:
due= value as [VERIFY — student + supervisor compute] when the deadline is jurisdictional (response deadline, SOL, notice window under a specific rule). The deadlines skill will not compute for you; the student + supervisor do the math and update the entry.due=. When the date is computed (count N days from triggering event), leave the [VERIFY] marker.# Intake Summary: [Client name or ID]
---
[AI-ASSISTED DRAFT — requires student analysis and attorney review]
**Privilege and confidentiality.** This summary is derived from client communications that may be privileged, confidential, or both. It inherits the source's privilege status. Distributing it beyond the privilege circle (including outside the clinic) can waive privilege. Keep it in the clinic's privileged file store, mark it appropriately, and make distribution decisions with your supervisor.
---
**Date:** [date] | **Intake by:** [student] | **Practice area:** [primary + any cross-area]
## Bottom line
[Take the case / Decline because X / Need more info on Y — next step is Z]
## Client's situation (in their words)
[The narrative the client gave, before legal categorization. This is the human story.]
## Legal issues identified
*Every statutory, ordinance, regulatory, rule, or case citation in this section carries a provenance tag (see plugin CLAUDE.md `## Shared guardrails` for the tag vocabulary). `[user provided]` if the supervisor uploaded the text, `[statute / regulator site]` if you fetched it this session from an official source, a research-connector tag (`[CourtListener]`, etc.) if it came from a tool result in this conversation, `[model knowledge — verify]` otherwise. The default is `[model knowledge — verify]`. A supervising attorney who cannot verify a cite against a connector needs to see the tag to know what to check first.*
### Primary ([practice area])
- [Issue 1]: [one line with any cite tagged, e.g., "RLTO §5-12-080 `[model knowledge — verify]`"]
- [Issue 2]: [one line]
### Cross-practice-area flags
- [Other area]: [what the client said that raised it]
[UNCERTAIN: whether clinic handles this or refers — professor call]
## Key facts
| Fact | Source | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| [fact] | [client statement / document provided] | [have it / need it] |
## Conflict check
**Opposing party:** [name(s)]
**Related parties:** [any]
**Flag:** [clear / needs conflict check against clinic database]
## Triage
**Classification:** [Urgent / Time-sensitive / Standard / May be out of scope]
**Driving deadline:** [if any — date and what it is]
## Deadlines to log
[One `/legal-clinic:deadlines --add ...` block per surfaced deadline — Step 7.
If none, omit this section.]
## Jurisdictional notes
*Every statute, ordinance, rule, or case citation in this section carries a provenance tag — same vocabulary as `## Legal issues identified`. Default `[model knowledge — verify]`. When no research connector is reachable for this session, record it in the **Sources:** line of the reviewer note (see plugin CLAUDE.md `## Outputs`) — do not emit a standalone banner.*
[State-specific or local-rule-specific issues relevant to this case type, per
CLAUDE.md jurisdiction, with each cite tagged]
## Supervision flags
[If supervision style includes flags: which fired and why. If formal queue:
"QUEUED for [professor]."]
---
## Verification prompts for the student
Before analysis, verify:
- [ ] [Specific fact the intake relies on — confirm with client or documents]
- [ ] [Deadline date — confirm from the actual notice/court document, not client's memory]
- [ ] [Any legal conclusion above is a starting hypothesis — research before relying on it]
## What this summary does NOT do
This summary does not decide whether the clinic takes this case. That's your
analysis and [Professor]'s judgment. It structures what the client told you
so you can spend your time on the analysis instead of the write-up.Store practice-area-specific question sets at references/intake-templates/[area].md. Cold-start populates these from the professor's intake form(s); if none provided, use the defaults above.
End with the next-steps decision tree per CLAUDE.md ## Outputs. Customize the options to what this skill just produced — the five default branches (draft the X, escalate, get more facts, watch and wait, something else) are a starting point, not a lock-in. The tree is the output; the lawyer picks.
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SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in legal-clinic/skills/client-intake of anthropics/claude-for-legal.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4a6c651
We found 3 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 3 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in anthropics/claude-for-legal, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
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| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Clinic Client Intake this skillanthropics/claude-for-legal | 9.6k | 3 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Researchalirezarezvani/claude-skills | 28k | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Skill Auditoraipoch/medical-research-skills | 2k | — | ~6.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Nist Pf Governmukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills | 295 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Patsnap Ip Innovation Coursespatsnap/mcp | 112 | — | ~651 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Paper to Chinese Patent DrafterYuan1z0825/nature-skills | 46k | 1 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 |
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Structures a legal clinic client intake interview and produces a case summary with cross-area issue spotting, conflict flags and triage classification. Built for law school clinics, this skill guides a student through intake interviews and writes up the result, so time goes to analysis instead of transcription. It loads clinic settings from a legal-clinic configuration file (practice areas, intake templates, supervision style, jurisdiction and flag triggers), checks for a supervisor's practice-area guide to use in place of the generic questions, and routes the client's story to the right practice-area template.
Legal Clinic Client Intake fits situations like: starting a new client intake at a legal clinic; running an intake interview that may span several practice areas; writing up a new client's situation for supervisor review; flagging possible conflicts and triaging a case.
Run `npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill client-intake -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (legal-clinic/skills/client-intake in anthropics/claude-for-legal) into .claude/skills/client-intake in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill client-intake -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (legal-clinic/skills/client-intake in anthropics/claude-for-legal) into .agents/skills/client-intake in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill client-intake -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/client-intake, .gemini/skills/client-intake, .github/skills/client-intake and .opencode/skills/client-intake in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Legal Clinic Client Intake is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: The legal-clinic plugin configuration with practice areas and intake templates.
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
Legal Clinic Client Intake is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 3.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 13k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 193 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
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anthropics (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in anthropics/claude-for-legal, which has 9,611 GitHub stars. The repository holds 147 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 29, 2026.
Source: anthropics/claude-for-legal on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.