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Official agent skill

Expansion Update

by anthropics in anthropics/claude-for-legal

Update the status of an in-progress international expansion project — recalculates what is now unblocked, flags anything overdue, and surfaces the next priorities.

OfficialApache-2.0Auto-check passed

Install Expansion Update

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install anthropics/claude-for-legal expansion-update --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/employment-legal/skills/expansion-update .claude/skills/expansion-update && 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
expansion-update
GitHub stars
9.6k
Used in
2 other repos
Token cost
~597 tokens
SKILL.md length
199 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
147
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Update the status of an in-progress international expansion project — recalculates what is now unblocked, flags anything overdue, and surfaces the next priorities.

  • Works in 7 steps: Load… → Identify the tracker file:… → Read the tracker. Show the current state → …
  • Work has happened since the last session and the expansion tracker needs to reflect the current state
  • SKILL.md covers Instructions and Examples
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Expansion Update is an agent skill from anthropics/claude-for-legal, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Update the status of an in-progress international expansion project — recalculates what is now unblocked, flags anything overdue, and surfaces the next priorities. Use when work has happened since the last session and the expansion tracker needs to reflect the current state.

Its SKILL.md is about 600 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

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

When your agent uses it

  • Work has happened since the last session and the expansion tracker needs to reflect the current state

Example prompts

  • “/expansion-update”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md.
  2. Identify the tracker file: ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/expansion-[slug].yaml. If it doesn't
  3. Read the tracker. Show the current state
  4. Ask for updates in a single prompt — do not ask about each item one by one
  5. Apply updates to the tracker file. For any item newly marked done,
  6. If any item has a due date that has passed and is still open or
  7. Write the updated tracker. Confirm

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

Expansion Update loads about 597 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 73 tokens; SKILL.md has 199 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~73
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~597

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). 199 words, ~597 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/expansion-update/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
expansion-update
description
Update the status of an in-progress international expansion project — recalculates what is now unblocked, flags anything overdue, and surfaces the next priorities. Use when work has happened since the last session and the expansion tracker needs to reflect the current state.
argument-hint
[country name]

/expansion-update

Returns to an open expansion tracker and updates item status based on what has happened since the last session. Recalculates what is now unblocked, flags anything overdue, and surfaces the next priorities.

Instructions

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md.

  2. Identify the tracker file: ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/expansion-[slug].yaml. If it doesn't exist, respond: "No expansion tracker found for [country]. Run /employment-legal:expansion-kickoff [country] to start one."

  3. Read the tracker. Show the current state:

[Country] Expansion — last updated [date]
Open: [N] | In progress: [N] | Done: [N] | Blocked: [N]

Next priorities (open items with earliest due dates or highest-dependency):
  [item] — owner: [owner]
  [item] — owner: [owner]
  [item] — owner: [owner]

  1. Ask for updates in a single prompt — do not ask about each item one by one:

    Which items have moved since we last looked? Tell me what's changed (e.g., "EOR decision made — going with Deel", "outside counsel engaged — call scheduled for Thursday", "PE analysis still open, waiting on tax"). You can also add new items or change due dates.

  2. Apply updates to the tracker file. For any item newly marked done, check whether it unblocks other items and flag those as now actionable.

  3. If any item has a due date that has passed and is still open or in-progress, flag it:

⚠️ Overdue: [item] — was due [date], owner: [owner]
  1. Write the updated tracker. Confirm:
Tracker updated — [N] items closed, [N] still open.
Next priority: [top open item].

Examples

/employment-legal:expansion-update Germany
/employment-legal:expansion-update
(will ask which country if multiple trackers exist)

Detailed tracker schema, item-status rules, and dependency logic live in the international-expansion reference skill — load it before doing substantive work.

© anthropics, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in employment-legal/skills/expansion-update of anthropics/claude-for-legal.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4a6c651

Used in 2 other repositories

We found 2 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 2 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 Expansion Update

What does Expansion Update do?

Update the status of an in-progress international expansion project — recalculates what is now unblocked, flags anything overdue, and surfaces the next priorities. Expansion Update is an agent skill from anthropics/claude-for-legal, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Update the status of an in-progress international expansion project — recalculates what is now unblocked, flags anything overdue, and surfaces the next priorities.

When should I use Expansion Update?

Expansion Update fits situations like: work has happened since the last session and the expansion tracker needs to reflect the current state.

How do I install Expansion Update in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Expansion Update in Codex?

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

Can I use Expansion Update 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 expansion-update -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/expansion-update, .gemini/skills/expansion-update, .github/skills/expansion-update and .opencode/skills/expansion-update in your project.

What does Expansion Update need to run?

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

Does Expansion Update 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 Expansion Update 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 Expansion Update use?

Expansion Update 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 Expansion Update use?

About 597 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.4k 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 Expansion Update?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Expansion Update: Internal Comms (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars), Internal Communication (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars), International Expansion (RefoundAI/lenny-skills, 1.4k stars) and Internal Communications Writer (anthropics/skills, 180k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Expansion Update?

anthropics (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in anthropics/claude-for-legal, which has 9,629 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.