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Legal Skills Registry Browser

by anthropics in anthropics/claude-for-legal

Searches watched registries for community legal skills, shows matches with descriptions and offers the full SKILL.md before anything is installed.

OfficialApache-2.0Auto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Legal Skills Registry Browser

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install anthropics/claude-for-legal registry-browser --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/legal-builder-hub/skills/registry-browser .claude/skills/registry-browser && 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
registry-browser
GitHub stars
9.6k
Used in
2 other repos
Token cost
~620 tokens
SKILL.md length
245 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
147
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Searches watched registries for community legal skills, shows matches with descriptions and offers the full SKILL.md before anything is installed.

  • Works in 5 steps: Fetch registry indexes → Search → Present matches → …
  • Searching for community legal skills across watched registries
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, Load context, Workflow and Default registries, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

The skill reads a list of watched registries from the legal-builder-hub plugin's `CLAUDE.md` configuration and searches each one. For GitHub repositories it fetches the `skills/` directory listing and the name and description from each SKILL.md; for marketplace-style registries it fetches the index. Indexes are cached locally in `references/registry-cache.json` and refreshed when older than 7 days or when you ask.

Searching is a plain keyword match on names and descriptions, with browsing by category where a registry has categories, and results show how many skills were found across how many registries. You can ask to see any match's full SKILL.md before deciding. To add a registry, you give a URL, the agent checks that it holds a skills or `.claude-plugin` folder, shows what is inside and adds it to the watchlist after you confirm. The default watched registry is lpm-skills, with 14 practice-agnostic legal project management skills.

It does not install anything, which is left to the skill-installer, it does not rate or review skills, and it does not search beyond the watched registries.

When your agent uses it

  • Searching for community legal skills across watched registries
  • Reading a skill's full SKILL.md before deciding to install it
  • Adding a new skills registry to the watchlist

Example prompts

  • “Find a skill for NDA triage in the registries I watch.”
  • “Show me what is available for contract redlining, with descriptions.”
  • “Show the full SKILL.md for the second match before I install it.”
  • “Add https://github.com/example-org/legal-skills to my watched registries.”

Requirements

  • The legal-builder-hub plugin configuration with a watched registries list
  • Network access to the registries

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Fetch registry indexes
  2. Search
  3. Present matches
  4. Preview
  5. Add a registry

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 (its code samples are markdown).

    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

Legal Skills Registry Browser loads about 620 tokens when it runs, and up to ~739 if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 245 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~76
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~620
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~739

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). 245 words, ~620 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/registry-browser/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
registry-browser
description
Search watched registries for community legal skills, showing matches with descriptions and offering to show the full SKILL.md before install. Use when the user says "browse", "search skills", "find a skill for", "what's out there for", or wants to add a new registry to the watchlist.
argument-hint
[search query]

/registry-browser

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-builder-hub/CLAUDE.md → watched registries.
  2. Use the workflow below.
  3. Search each registry. Show matches with descriptions.
  4. Offer to show full SKILL.md for any match.

Purpose

Find skills across the watched registries. Search, preview, decide.

Load context

~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-builder-hub/CLAUDE.md → watched registries list.

Workflow

Step 1: Fetch registry indexes

For each watched registry:

  • GitHub repos: fetch skills/ directory listing and each SKILL.md frontmatter (name + description).
  • Marketplace-style registries: fetch the index.

Cache the index locally (references/registry-cache.json) so browsing is fast. Refresh cache if >7 days old or on request.

Match query against skill names and descriptions. Simple keyword match is fine — these are small enough that fuzzy search is overkill.

Also: browse by category if the registry organizes skills that way.

Step 3: Present matches
markdown
## Search: "[query]"

**Found [N] skills across [M] registries:**

### [skill-name]
**From:** [registry name]
**Description:** [from frontmatter]
[View full SKILL.md] [Install]

### [skill-name]
[...]
Step 4: Preview

On "view full SKILL.md": fetch and show the whole file. User reads it before deciding to install. No surprises.

Step 5: Add a registry

If the user has a URL to a registry not in the watchlist:

  1. Fetch it, validate it's a skills repo (has skills/ or .claude-plugin/)
  2. Show what's in it
  3. Add to ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-builder-hub/CLAUDE.md → watched registries on confirmation

Default registries

  • lpm-skills — 14 legal project management skills. Practice-agnostic. Good starting point.
  • Space for others to be added as the ecosystem grows.

What this skill does not do

  • Install anything. It browses. skill-installer installs.
  • Rate or review skills. It shows you the SKILL.md; you judge.
  • Search the whole internet. Only watched registries.

© 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

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in legal-builder-hub/skills/registry-browser of anthropics/claude-for-legal.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/registries.yaml

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 Legal Skills Registry Browser

What does Legal Skills Registry Browser do?

Searches watched registries for community legal skills, shows matches with descriptions and offers the full SKILL.md before anything is installed. md` configuration and searches each one.md; for marketplace-style registries it fetches the index.

When should I use Legal Skills Registry Browser?

Legal Skills Registry Browser fits situations like: searching for community legal skills across watched registries; reading a skill's full SKILL.md before deciding to install it; adding a new skills registry to the watchlist.

How do I install Legal Skills Registry Browser in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Legal Skills Registry Browser in Codex?

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

Can I use Legal Skills Registry Browser 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 registry-browser -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/registry-browser, .gemini/skills/registry-browser, .github/skills/registry-browser and .opencode/skills/registry-browser in your project.

What does Legal Skills Registry Browser need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Legal Skills Registry Browser is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: The legal-builder-hub plugin configuration with a watched registries list; Network access to the registries.

Does Legal Skills Registry Browser 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 Legal Skills Registry Browser 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 Legal Skills Registry Browser use?

Legal Skills Registry Browser 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 Legal Skills Registry Browser use?

About 620 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.5k 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 119 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Legal Skills Registry Browser?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Legal Skills Registry Browser: TeamAI Setup and Lifecycle (Tencent/teamai-cli, 5.2k stars), Dotagents (getsentry/sentry-wizard, 295 stars), Skill Miner (hqhq1025/skill-optimizer, 181 stars) and Skill Base CLI (ginuim/skill-base, 120 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Legal Skills Registry Browser?

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.