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Disputes And Legal Holds

by cbrock84 in cbrock84/headcount

Handles a dispute from the first sign of it — recognizing when preservation obligations attach, issuing and scoping a legal hold, suspending automatic deletion across every system that holds…

MITAuto-check passedLegal & Compliance

Install Disputes And Legal Holds

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill disputes-and-legal-holds -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount disputes-and-legal-holds --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/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/legal-risk/skills/disputes-and-legal-holds .claude/skills/disputes-and-legal-holds && 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
disputes-and-legal-holds
GitHub stars
2k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
617 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
178
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Handles a dispute from the first sign of it — recognizing when preservation obligations attach, issuing and scoping a legal hold, suspending automatic deletion across every system that holds…

  • Tasks that involve Dispute resolution
  • SKILL.md covers Preservation attaches earlier…, Issue the hold in writing, and…, Maintain the hold as a live… and Privilege is easy to lose and…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Disputes And Legal Holds is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Handles a dispute from the first sign of it — recognizing when preservation obligations attach, issuing and scoping a legal hold, suspending automatic deletion across every system that holds relevant material, preserving privilege, managing outside counsel and cost, and evaluating settlement against the real cost of continuing. Use this to respond to a claim or demand letter, issue a hold, work out which systems the hold has to reach, or decide whether to fight.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/sources.md`).

It sits in Legal & Compliance, covering Dispute resolution. The repository describes itself as: An agent organization structured as a company — 15+ departments, 125+ skills, each independently installable, citing the standards and regulators that settle the question. Runs… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Dispute resolution

Example prompts

  • “Use the disputes-and-legal-holds skill to handle a dispute from the first sign of it — recognizing when preservation obligations attach, issuing and…”
  • “/disputes-and-legal-holds”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 98d1c17. 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

Disputes And Legal Holds loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 123 tokens; SKILL.md has 617 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~123
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.6k

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 cbrock84/headcount at commit 98d1c17, republished under its MIT licence (© cbrock84). 617 words, ~1,136 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/disputes-and-legal-holds/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
disputes-and-legal-holds
description
Handles a dispute from the first sign of it — recognizing when preservation obligations attach, issuing and scoping a legal hold, suspending automatic deletion across every system that holds relevant material, preserving privilege, managing outside counsel and cost, and evaluating settlement against the real cost of continuing. Use this to respond to a claim or demand letter, issue a hold, work out which systems the hold has to reach, or decide whether to fight.

The decisions that determine how a dispute goes are made in the first week, usually by people who do not know a dispute has started.

This structures the operational response. Procedural obligations and their deadlines vary by jurisdiction and forum — get counsel engaged early, and let them drive strategy.

Preservation attaches earlier than most people expect

The obligation to preserve begins when litigation is reasonably anticipated — which can be a demand letter, a threat made in a meeting, a regulator's inquiry, or an internal complaint serious enough that a claim is foreseeable. It does not wait for a filing.

Destruction after that point is treated far more seriously than the underlying dispute. Routine automatic deletion continuing through a hold is the common version, and "it was our normal policy" is not the defense people assume.

Issue the hold in writing, and make it reach the systems

A hold has two halves and organizations routinely do only the first.

  • Notify the people. Written, naming the matter in general terms, describing the categories of material to preserve, instructing recipients not to delete and not to discuss, and requiring acknowledgment. Identify custodians by what they touched, not by seniority.
  • Suspend the machinery. Automatic deletion runs on schedules nobody remembers setting: mail retention, chat history expiry, ticket archival, log rotation, backup rotation, CRM purges, device wipe on offboarding. Each needs an explicit suspension for the affected scope.

The systems half is where holds fail, because the notice goes out and everyone assumes it was sufficient. Keep a list of every system with an automatic deletion schedule so that the question is answerable in an afternoon rather than a fortnight.

Maintain the hold as a live thing

Re-notify periodically, add custodians as the matter develops, and cover departures — an employee leaving under a hold means their mailbox, files and device do not follow the standard offboarding path. Release the hold in writing when counsel says so, and only then.

Privilege is easy to lose and cannot be recovered

Privilege protects legal advice, not facts and not business decisions dressed as legal ones. Copying a lawyer onto a business discussion does not make it privileged; forwarding privileged advice widely inside the organization can waive it.

Where an investigation is being run for the purpose of legal advice, structure it that way from the start — directed by counsel, marked, and circulated narrowly. Retrofitting privilege afterward generally fails.

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Manage counsel and cost deliberately

Agree scope, staffing, rates and a budget with checkpoints before work starts, and require early written assessment of the realistic range of outcomes. Discovery is usually the largest cost and the most controllable one — narrowing custodians and date ranges early matters more than any hourly rate negotiation.

Decide about settlement on expected cost, not on principle

Compare the realistic range of outcomes, weighted, against the full cost of continuing: fees, management time, disruption, disclosure risk, and the effect on other matters. Management time is the cost most consistently omitted and is often the largest.

Consider what a settlement signals to other potential claimants, and get releases that are broad enough to actually end it.

Sources

references/sources.md in this skill lists the outside authorities that settle the questions here — what each one is authoritative for, and what you may do with it. Check them before answering on anything they cover, and cite what you used. Most are free to read and not free to reproduce; the use note on each is binding.

Never

  • Wait for a filing before preserving.
  • Send a hold notice without suspending the automatic deletion it depends on.
  • Offboard someone under a hold through the standard process.
  • Assume copying counsel on a message makes it privileged.

© cbrock84, MIT. 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 plugins/legal-risk/skills/disputes-and-legal-holds of cbrock84/headcount.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/sources.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 98d1c17

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Questions about Disputes And Legal Holds

What does Disputes And Legal Holds do?

Handles a dispute from the first sign of it — recognizing when preservation obligations attach, issuing and scoping a legal hold, suspending automatic deletion across every system that holds…. Disputes And Legal Holds is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Handles a dispute from the first sign of it — recognizing when preservation obligations attach, issuing and scoping a legal hold, suspending automatic deletion across every system that holds relevant material, preserving privilege, managing outside counsel and cost, and evaluating settlement against the real cost of continuing.

When should I use Disputes And Legal Holds?

Disputes And Legal Holds fits situations like: tasks that involve Dispute resolution.

How do I install Disputes And Legal Holds in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill disputes-and-legal-holds -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/legal-risk/skills/disputes-and-legal-holds in cbrock84/headcount) into .claude/skills/disputes-and-legal-holds in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Disputes And Legal Holds in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill disputes-and-legal-holds -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/legal-risk/skills/disputes-and-legal-holds in cbrock84/headcount) into .agents/skills/disputes-and-legal-holds in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Disputes And Legal Holds 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 cbrock84/headcount --skill disputes-and-legal-holds -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/disputes-and-legal-holds, .gemini/skills/disputes-and-legal-holds, .github/skills/disputes-and-legal-holds and .opencode/skills/disputes-and-legal-holds in your project.

What does Disputes And Legal Holds need to run?

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

Does Disputes And Legal Holds 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 Disputes And Legal Holds 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 Disputes And Legal Holds use?

Disputes And Legal Holds is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Disputes And Legal Holds use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k 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 476 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Disputes And Legal Holds?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Disputes And Legal Holds: Litigation Deadline Calendar (lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, 847 stars), Moot Court Simulation Builder (cat-xierluo/legal-skills, 721 stars), Intake To Draft (stella/stella, 259 stars) and Nla Arbitrate (internet-court/internet-court-skill, 6.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Disputes And Legal Holds?

cbrock84 (a GitHub user) maintains it in cbrock84/headcount, which has 2,022 GitHub stars. The repository holds 178 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 17, 2026.

Source: cbrock84/headcount on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.