Official agent skill

Customize

by anthropics in anthropics/claude-for-legal

Guided customization of your litigation practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview.

OfficialApache-2.0Auto-check passedLegal & Compliance

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/litigation-legal/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
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
507 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
147
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Guided customization of your litigation practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview.

  • Works in 6 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 litigation practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust practice role, side (plaintiff / defense / mixed), risk calibration, landscape, house style, escalation contacts, severity vocabulary, or matter workspace paths. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "update my profile", "edit my config", or "customize".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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 Legal & Compliance, covering Legal research and Performance reviews. 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]”
  • “update my profile”
  • “edit my config”
  • “/customize”

Workflow steps

6 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. For shared-profile changes (company name, industry, jurisdictions,
  6. 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 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 101 tokens; SKILL.md has 507 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~101
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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). 507 words, ~1,164 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/customize/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
customize
description
Guided customization of your litigation practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust practice role, side (plaintiff / defense / mixed), risk calibration, landscape, house style, escalation contacts, severity vocabulary, or matter workspace paths. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "update my profile", "edit my config", or "customize".
argument-hint
[section name, or describe what you want to change]

/customize

When this runs

The user typed /litigation-legal:customize. They want to change something in their litigation profile — a risk calibration, a house style rule, an escalation contact, a landscape note — 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/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md (and ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/company-profile.md one level up). If the plugin config does not exist or still contains [PLACEHOLDER] values, say:

    You haven't run setup yet. Run /litigation-legal: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:

    • Company / who you are — name, industry, jurisdictions, stage, practice setting (shared across all 12 plugins — changes flow through company-profile.md)
    • Practice role — in-house counsel / outside counsel / solo / clinic
    • Side — plaintiff / defense / mixed, and any posture nuances (class action defense, regulatory enforcement defense, commercial plaintiff, etc.)
    • Risk calibration — what counts as high / medium / low risk on an inbound demand, subpoena, or new matter; escalation triggers
    • Landscape — regular adversaries, friendly and unfriendly venues, judges to know, standing OC relationships
    • House style — brief style, declaration format, demand letter template, deposition outline structure, legal hold template
    • Severity vocabulary map — how you translate severity labels across client / internal / court-facing outputs
    • People — matter leads, in-house team, outside counsel by matter type, escalation chain
    • Workflow — matter workspaces, portfolio log, OC status cadence, legal hold refresh cadence
    • Integrations — document storage / e-filing / calendar / Slack 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:

    • Side mixed → defense-only: "/matter-intake will stop asking the plaintiff-side questions. /demand-draft will still work for defense-side pre-suit demands but the starting frame will be different."
    • Risk calibration tightening high-risk threshold: "More inbound demands and subpoenas will route through /matter-briefing and /oc-status."
    • New standing OC for IP matters: "/oc-status will include this firm in weekly sweeps for IP-tagged matters."
  5. For shared-profile changes (company name, industry, jurisdictions, practice setting, stage): write to ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/company-profile.md and note:

    This change affects all 12 plugins — any plugin that reads your jurisdiction footprint now sees [new value].

  6. Close.

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

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Guardrails

  • Never delete a section. If the user wants to "remove" a matter type from scope, offer to mark it [Not currently handled] and explain what intake routing changes.
  • Flag internal inconsistency. If the change would make the profile inconsistent (e.g., plaintiff-only side + defense-only OC roster; or "high volume" portfolio + no matter workspaces configured), flag the tension.
  • Flag guardrail degradation. The FRE 408 / privilege gate on /demand-draft, the privilege header on matter outputs, source attribution tags, and [verify] tags on cited authorities are load- bearing — do not remove. The [review] flag and the "do not file without attorney review" framing are load-bearing.
  • One change at a time. Don't re-ask the whole interview.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in litigation-legal/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 litigation practice 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 litigation practice 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 (litigation-legal/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 (litigation-legal/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 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k 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: Billing And Litigation Budget (THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese, 868 stars), Tax Law Research (Serein-81/financial_rag, 148 stars), Tech Contract Negotiation Patrick Munro (lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, 826 stars) and Tw Legal RAG (aa0101181514/tw-legal-rag, 327 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 9,611 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.