Official agent skill

Customize

by anthropics in anthropics/claude-for-legal

Guided customization of your law-student study profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview.

OfficialApache-2.0Auto-check passedEducation

Install Customize

skills CLI
$ npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill customize -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install anthropics/claude-for-legal customize --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/law-student/skills/customize .claude/skills/customize && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
customize
GitHub stars
9.6k
Used in
3 other repos
Token cost
~994 tokens
SKILL.md length
462 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
147
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Guided customization of your law-student study profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview.

  • Works in 5 steps: Read the config. Read → Show the customizable map. List what's… → Ask what they want to change. → …
  • The user says change my [thing]
  • SKILL.md covers When this runs, What to do and Guardrails
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Customize is an agent skill from anthropics/claude-for-legal, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Guided customization of your law-student study profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust current classes, learning style, outline preferences, bar prep subjects, seed materials, or study session cadence. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "add a class", "update my profile", "new semester", or "customize".

Its SKILL.md is about 990 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Education. The repository describes itself as: A suite of plugins for legal workflows. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • The user says change my [thing]
  • Update my profile

Example prompts

  • “change my [thing]”
  • “add a class”
  • “update my profile”
  • “/customize”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Read the config. Read
  2. Show the customizable map. List what's in the profile, grouped, with a
  3. Ask what they want to change.
  4. Make the change. Show the current value, ask for the new value, explain
  5. Close.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 4a6c651. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    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.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Customize loads about 994 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 92 tokens; SKILL.md has 462 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~92
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~994

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.

Safety

Auto-check passed

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.

SKILL.md

The full file from anthropics/claude-for-legal at commit 4a6c651, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© anthropics). 462 words, ~994 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/customize/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
customize
description
Guided customization of your law-student study profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust current classes, learning style, outline preferences, bar prep subjects, seed materials, or study session cadence. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "add a class", "update my profile", "new semester", or "customize".
argument-hint
[section name, or describe what you want to change]

/customize

When this runs

The user typed /law-student:customize. They want to change something in their study profile — a class, a learning style preference, a bar prep subject — without re-running the whole cold-start interview and without hand-editing YAML.

What to do

  1. Read the config. Read ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/CLAUDE.md. If the plugin config does not exist or still contains [PLACEHOLDER] values, say:

    You haven't run setup yet. Run /law-student:cold-start-interview first — customize is for adjusting a profile you already have.

  2. Show the customizable map. List what's in the profile, grouped, with a one-line summary of the current value:

    • Student profile — name, school, year (1L/2L/3L/LLM), jurisdiction for bar, enrolled clinics or journals
    • Current classes — class name, professor, syllabus path, exam format (closed/open book, essay/MBE/mixed), cold-call style
    • Learning style — Socratic vs. summary, how much pushback you want, whether the plugin rewrites your work or only critiques structurally
    • Outline preferences — outline format (IRAC/CREAC/case-briefing style), level of rule detail, whether to include policy discussion, saved outline templates
    • Bar prep — which exam (UBE/state), subjects in rotation, weak- subject flagging, MBE vs. essay cadence
    • Seed materials — casebook paths, prior outlines, graded essays, old exams, MBE sets, syllabi, papers
    • Study workflow — session length, flashcard Leitner bucket schedule, exam forecast cadence, cold-call prep timing
    • Integrations — document storage / flashcard app (if any) status, fallbacks
  3. Ask what they want to change.

    What would you like to adjust? Pick a section, or describe the change in your own words.

  4. Make the change. Show the current value, ask for the new value, explain what changes downstream, confirm, write it to the config.

    Examples:

    • Adding a new class: "/outline-builder will scaffold a new outline for this class. /flashcards will add a new subject bucket. /cold-call-prep will ask for a seat and a topic when you invoke it for this class."
    • Learning style Socratic → summary-first: "/socratic-drill won't ask you to answer first — it'll present the rule and example, then quiz you on application."
    • Adding a bar subject: "/bar-prep-questions will include this subject in rotation and weight it higher if you mark it weak."
  5. Close.

    Done. Your next output will reflect the change. Anything else? You can run /law-student:customize anytime.

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Guardrails

  • Never delete a section. If the user wants to "drop" a class, offer to mark it [Archived — retain seed materials] and explain what flashcard and outline behavior changes.
  • Flag internal inconsistency. If the change would make the profile inconsistent (e.g., "summary-first" learning style + "maximum pushback" Socratic setting), flag the tension.
  • Flag guardrail degradation. The "no rewriting your writing" rule on /legal-writing and /irac-practice is load-bearing — the value of the skill is structural feedback, not ghost-writing. If the user asks to turn that off, confirm they understand that the plugin will not write their work for them.
  • One change at a time. Don't re-ask the whole interview.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in law-student/skills/customize of anthropics/claude-for-legal.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4a6c651

Used in 3 other repositories

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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Questions about Customize

What does Customize do?

Guided customization of your law-student study profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Customize is an agent skill from anthropics/claude-for-legal, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Guided customization of your law-student study profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview.

When should I use Customize?

Customize fits situations like: the user says change my [thing]; update my profile.

How do I install Customize in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill customize -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (law-student/skills/customize in anthropics/claude-for-legal) into .claude/skills/customize in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Customize in Codex?

Run `npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill customize -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (law-student/skills/customize in anthropics/claude-for-legal) into .agents/skills/customize in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Customize in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

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 customize -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/customize, .gemini/skills/customize, .github/skills/customize and .opencode/skills/customize in your project.

What does Customize need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Customize is instructions for the agent only.

Does Customize access the network?

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.

Is Customize safe to install?

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.

What licence does Customize use?

Customize 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.

How many tokens does Customize use?

About 994 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Customize?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Customize: DeepTutor CLI (HKUDS/DeepTutor, 41k stars), Zhang Xuefeng Perspective (alchaincyf/zhangxuefeng-skill, 10k stars), Deep Reading Analyst (ginobefun/deep-reading-analyst-skill, 353 stars) and AI Engineering Placement Quiz (rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch, 66k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Customize?

anthropics (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in anthropics/claude-for-legal, which has 9,617 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.