Agent skill

California Bar Complete

by lawve-ai in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills

Complete prep for all three scored components of the California Bar Exam: the five written ESSAYS (13 subjects — Business Associations, Civil Procedure, Community Property, Constitutional Law…

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Install California Bar Complete

skills CLI
$ npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill california-bar-complete -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills california-bar-complete --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/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/california-bar-complete-robb-miller .claude/skills/california-bar-complete && 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
california-bar-complete
GitHub stars
847
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,023 words
Files
42 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
154
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Complete prep for all three scored components of the California Bar Exam: the five written ESSAYS (13 subjects — Business Associations, Civil Procedure, Community Property, Constitutional Law…

  • Ever someone is studying for the California bar (or the MBE) and says things like: give me the rule for [issue]
  • SKILL.md covers Three components, How to use it — pick the…, California divergences are the… and Sourcing, accuracy, and…, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Big issues in [subject]

What it does

California Bar Complete is an agent skill from lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills. Complete prep for all three scored components of the California Bar Exam: the five written ESSAYS (13 subjects — Business Associations, Civil Procedure, Community Property, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Professional Responsibility, Real Property, Remedies, Torts, Trusts, Wills & Succession), the PERFORMANCE TEST, and the multiple-choice MBE (7 subjects). Trigger whenever someone is studying for the California bar (or the MBE) and says things like: "give me the rule for…

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 44 other files, including reference files (for example `README.md`, `references/essays/business-associations.md` and `references/essays/civil-procedure.md`).

It sits in Education, covering Quizzes and assessments and Tutoring and explanations. The repository describes itself as: A curated list of awesome Agent Skills for automating legal work. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Ever someone is studying for the California bar (or the MBE) and says things like: give me the rule for [issue]
  • Big issues in [subject]
  • Drill/quiz me on [topic]
  • MBE questions on [subject]

Example prompts

  • “give me the rule for [issue]”
  • “big issues in [subject]”
  • “drill/quiz me on [topic]”
  • “/california-bar-complete”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 045f738. 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

California Bar Complete loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~294k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 262 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,023 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~262
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~294k

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 lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills at commit 045f738, republished under its MIT licence (© lawve-ai). 1,023 words, ~2,179 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/california-bar-complete/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 41 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
california-bar-complete
description
Complete prep for all three scored components of the California Bar Exam: the five written ESSAYS (13 subjects — Business Associations, Civil Procedure, Community Property, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Professional Responsibility, Real Property, Remedies, Torts, Trusts, Wills & Succession), the PERFORMANCE TEST, and the multiple-choice MBE (7 subjects). Trigger whenever someone is studying for the California bar (or the MBE) and says things like: "give me the rule for [issue]", "big issues in [subject]", "drill/quiz me on [topic]", "MBE questions on [subject]", "teach me [doctrine]", "build an attack outline", "grade my essay", "memorizable paragraph for [issue]", "performance test approach", or "make a study plan" — or names any tested essay/MBE subject in a study, memorization, drilling, or practice-question context. Also trigger when a student uploads a practice essay, PT, or question set to be graded or turned into rule blocks. When in doubt during bar prep, trigger.
license
MIT. Study aid only — not legal advice.
metadata.version
1.3.0
metadata.author
Robb (@LegalHacks)

California Bar Complete

End-to-end prep for the written and multiple-choice halves of the California Bar Exam, weighted roughly 50/50: five one-hour essays (any of 13 subjects), one 90-minute Performance Test, and the 200-question MBE (7 subjects). This skill centralizes the black-letter rules, pre-written memorizable IRAC paragraphs, MBE practice, and exam-day strategy a student needs.

Core philosophy: memorize a bank of issue paragraphs in advance, then on exam day spot the issue and transcribe the paragraph, filling the application sentence with the facts in front of you; for the MBE, drill original questions until the rules and their traps are automatic. The banks make both fast.

Three components

ComponentWhat it isWhere the material lives
Essays5 essays drawn from 13 subjectsreferences/essays/ (attack outlines + IRAC rule blocks) + references/standard-paragraphs/ (memorizable paragraphs)
Performance Test1 closed-universe lawyering task (90 min)references/pt/performance-test.md
MBE200 MCQs across 7 subjectsreferences/mbe/ (method + 7 subject files)

Exam strategy for all components: references/exam/exam-day.md (timing, IRAC discipline, issue-spotting, triage).

The 13 essay subjects

Business Associations · Civil Procedure · Community Property · Constitutional Law · Contracts · Criminal Law & Procedure · Evidence · Professional Responsibility · Real Property · Remedies · Torts · Trusts · Wills & Succession.

Each subject has two files: references/essays/<subject>.md (a condensed attack outline plus full IRAC rule blocks) and references/standard-paragraphs/<subject>.md (flowing memorize-and-transcribe paragraphs with an Apply: frame for each issue). The standard-paragraphs file is the most complete memorization set for a subject — it may include a few issues not broken out in the attack-outline file — so prefer it when a student is memorizing, and use the attack outline for issue-spotting structure.

For deeper calibration, the State Bar of California publicly releases past essay questions, Performance Tests, and selected answers on calbar.ca.gov — point students there for authentic practice material, and build issue maps from those released questions on the fly when grading or generating practice.

The 7 MBE subjects

Civil Procedure · Constitutional Law · Contracts · Criminal Law & Procedure · Evidence · Real Property · Torts. See references/mbe/mbe-method.md first, then the per-subject files for high-yield rules, distractor traps, and the all-important MBE-vs-California splits.

How to use it — pick the component, then the mode

Figure out which component (essay, PT, or MBE) and which mode the student wants from how they ask, then act. Students chain these constantly.

Mode 1 — Retrieve (default)

"Give me the rule for [X]" / "what are the big issues in [subject]." Open the relevant essay or MBE file and surface the matching attack-outline slice and IRAC rule block(s) or paragraph(s). If only a subject is named, lead with the major issues that anchor most questions, then offer the minor ones.

Mode 2 — Drill / Teach

"Drill me", "quiz me on the rules", "teach me [doctrine]." Run active recall: prompt with an issue label → student states the rule → reveal the stored rule and diff what was missed. Track misses and re-test those first. One issue at a time; keep it brisk.

Mode 3 — MBE Quiz / Timed Drill

"Quiz me with MBE questions", "give me a timed set." Follow references/mbe/mbe-method.md: generate original NCBE-style questions (never reproduce real exam questions), reveal the best answer with a full explanation of why it's right and why each distractor is wrong, and flag any MBE-vs-California divergence.

Mode 4 — Grade (full answers and outlines)

"Grade my essay/PT answer" or "mark my outline." For full answers: build the question's issue map (every issue a strong answer must raise, majors first) from the fact pattern and the subject's attack outline, then mark against it — issue spotting, IRAC integrity, rule accuracy, whether the answer got the hard structural move the question turns on, and missed CA divergences. Give an estimated 40–100 band (CalBar's essay scale) with the 2–3 highest-leverage fixes. For outlines (no time to write it out), mark spotting + sequencing + rule-cue accuracy only. Missed majors = the biggest leak (flag 🔴). Always state this is self-study calibration, not an official score.

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Mode 5 — Generate / Plan (incl. essay & outline creation)

"Build an attack outline / memorizable paragraphs for [topic]", "write me a practice essay question", or a student uploads their own outline or question set. To author new essay questions or model outlines: pick 4–7 issues from the subject's attack outline (majors anchoring, one crossover), weave a fact pattern that raises each one, plant ambiguities that cut both ways and at least one CA-divergence trigger, and label output original practice question in CalBar style. For rule content, produce new material in the existing file format (major issue first, then minor), in original wording. Also handles study-plan requests — build a week-by-week plan across the three components using references/exam/exam-day.md.

Working from released CalBar material

When the user brings released CalBar questions, selected answers, or their own scored essays into a session, use them freely within the session — build issue maps, anchor grading, diff the student's answer against what scored well. Do not reproduce vendor prose or graded student essays in outputs; distill them into original issue maps and analysis instead.

California divergences are the highest-yield points

Throughout, 🔴 flags mark where California law departs from the majority/MBE rule — CEC vs FRE, CA community property, the CA Rules of Professional Conduct, pure comparative negligence, CA civil procedure, CA criminal statutes. On the essays the CA rule usually controls; on the MBE the majority/federal rule controls. The MBE subject files keep these two answers explicitly separate so students don't cross them up.

Sourcing, accuracy, and disclaimer

  • All rules and all practice questions are stated in original wording. Black-letter law is not copyrightable, but specific vendor prose and real NCBE questions are — never reproduce them.
  • Items marked > ⚠️ VERIFY involve recently amended or unsettled law (e.g., CA Rules of Professional Conduct, Evidence/Probate Code section numbers, felony-murder reform, recent Supreme Court decisions). Confirm against current authority before relying on them.
  • Exam scope can change. Confirm the tested subjects against the State Bar of California's current scope outline near the exam date.
  • This skill is a study aid, not legal advice. End substantive outputs with: "Study aid only — verify against current California authority. Not legal advice."

Conventions

  • Confidence flags: 🟢 settled · 🟡 verify nuance · 🔴 high-divergence-from-MBE or recently changed.
  • Keep retrieval tight — show the block(s) asked for, not a whole file.
  • Cross-reference overlapping subjects (Contracts↔Remedies, Crim Law↔Crim Pro, Wills↔Trusts↔Community Property, and every MBE subject ↔ its essay-subject files).

© lawve-ai, 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 41 other files (references) in skills/california-bar-complete-robb-miller of lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • LICENSE
  • README.md
  • references/essays/business-associations.md
  • references/essays/civil-procedure.md
  • references/essays/community-property.md
  • references/essays/constitutional-law.md
  • references/essays/contracts.md
  • references/essays/criminal-law-procedure.md
  • references/essays/evidence.md
  • references/essays/professional-responsibility.md
  • references/essays/real-property.md
  • references/essays/remedies.md
  • references/essays/torts.md
  • references/essays/trusts.md
  • references/essays/wills-succession.md
  • references/exam/exam-day.md
  • references/mbe
  • … and 24 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 045f738

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Questions about California Bar Complete

What does California Bar Complete do?

Complete prep for all three scored components of the California Bar Exam: the five written ESSAYS (13 subjects — Business Associations, Civil Procedure, Community Property, Constitutional Law…. California Bar Complete is an agent skill from lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills. Complete prep for all three scored components of the California Bar Exam: the five written ESSAYS (13 subjects — Business Associations, Civil Procedure, Community Property, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Professional Responsibility, Real Property, Remedies, Torts, Trusts, Wills & Succession), the PERFORMANCE TEST, and the multiple-choice MBE (7 subjects).

When should I use California Bar Complete?

California Bar Complete fits situations like: ever someone is studying for the California bar (or the MBE) and says things like: give me the rule for [issue]; big issues in [subject]; drill/quiz me on [topic]; MBE questions on [subject].

How do I install California Bar Complete in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill california-bar-complete -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/california-bar-complete-robb-miller in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills) into .claude/skills/california-bar-complete in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install California Bar Complete in Codex?

Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill california-bar-complete -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/california-bar-complete-robb-miller in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills) into .agents/skills/california-bar-complete in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use California Bar Complete 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 lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill california-bar-complete -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/california-bar-complete, .gemini/skills/california-bar-complete, .github/skills/california-bar-complete and .opencode/skills/california-bar-complete in your project.

What does California Bar Complete need to run?

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

Does California Bar Complete 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 California Bar Complete 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 California Bar Complete use?

California Bar Complete is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does California Bar Complete use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.7k 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 292k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to California Bar Complete?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with California Bar Complete: DeepTutor CLI (HKUDS/DeepTutor, 41k stars), Claude Certification Tutor (rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch, 67k stars), StudyVault Quiz Tutor (bevibing/tutor-skills, 1.3k stars) and Zone of Proximal Development Practice Lessons (THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC, 40k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains California Bar Complete?

lawve-ai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, which has 847 GitHub stars. The repository holds 154 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 2, 2026.

Source: lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.