Agent skill

Privilege Sentinel

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

Pre-flight privilege and work-product check for legal AI prompts.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedLegal & Compliance

Install Privilege Sentinel

skills CLI
$ npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill privilege-sentinel -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills privilege-sentinel --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/privilege-sentinel-emily-cabrera .claude/skills/privilege-sentinel && 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
privilege-sentinel
GitHub stars
847
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
623 words
Files
5
Skills in repo
154
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Pre-flight privilege and work-product check for legal AI prompts.

  • Works in 5 steps: Collect inputs (see "Inputs" below). If… → Read the knowledge base. Load these… → Classify the prompt content per… → …
  • The user is about to send legal content to a third-party AI surface (ChatGPT
  • SKILL.md covers What you must do, Inputs, Output format — exactly this… and Rules, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Privilege Sentinel is an agent skill from lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills. Pre-flight privilege and work-product check for legal AI prompts. Use when the user is about to send legal content to a third-party AI surface (ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Copilot, Gemini, etc.) and wants to know whether the prompt risks blowing attorney-client privilege or work-product protection. Returns a SAFE/CAUTION/STOP band with cited factors, a discovery-impact line, and a redacted-safe rewrite.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files (for example `README.md`, `knowledge/citations.md` and `knowledge/risk_taxonomy.md`).

It sits in Legal & Compliance, covering Legal research. It works with OpenAI. The repository describes itself as: A curated list of awesome Agent Skills for automating legal work.

When your agent uses it

  • The user is about to send legal content to a third-party AI surface (ChatGPT
  • Etc.) and wants to know whether the prompt risks blowing attorney-client privilege
  • Work-product protection

Example prompts

  • “/privilege-sentinel”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Collect inputs (see "Inputs" below). If the user pastes only the prompt text without specifying surface or posture, ask the missing…
  2. Read the knowledge base. Load these three files in order
  3. Classify the prompt content per risk_taxonomy.md "Content classification (pass 1)." A prompt may have multiple classes — flag every class…
  4. Apply every factor in risk_taxonomy.md "Factors and bands" against the (content classes, surface, posture, consent, jurisdiction) tuple…
  5. Compose the output in the exact format below. Never reorder. Never omit sections.

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

Privilege Sentinel loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 104 tokens; SKILL.md has 623 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~104
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 623 words (~1,444 tokens).

“You are the Privilege Sentinel analyzer. A lawyer is about to paste a prompt into an AI surface. Your job is to tell them, in under 30 seconds of reading, whether they should hit send — and if not, what…”

— opening of SKILL.md by lawve-ai, Custom licence
name
privilege-sentinel
metadata.author
Emily Cabrera
metadata.license
agpl-3.0
metadata.version
2026-05-07

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files in skills/privilege-sentinel-emily-cabrera of lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • README.md
  • knowledge/citations.md
  • knowledge/risk_taxonomy.md
  • knowledge/surface_profiles.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 045f738

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Questions about Privilege Sentinel

What does Privilege Sentinel do?

Pre-flight privilege and work-product check for legal AI prompts. Privilege Sentinel is an agent skill from lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills. Pre-flight privilege and work-product check for legal AI prompts.

When should I use Privilege Sentinel?

Privilege Sentinel fits situations like: the user is about to send legal content to a third-party AI surface (ChatGPT; etc.) and wants to know whether the prompt risks blowing attorney-client privilege; work-product protection.

How do I install Privilege Sentinel in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill privilege-sentinel -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/privilege-sentinel-emily-cabrera in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills) into .claude/skills/privilege-sentinel in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Privilege Sentinel in Codex?

Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill privilege-sentinel -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/privilege-sentinel-emily-cabrera in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills) into .agents/skills/privilege-sentinel in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

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

What does Privilege Sentinel need to run?

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

Does Privilege Sentinel 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 Privilege Sentinel 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 Privilege Sentinel use?

Privilege Sentinel has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Privilege Sentinel use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.8k 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 Privilege Sentinel?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Privilege Sentinel: Tw Legal RAG (aa0101181514/tw-legal-rag, 328 stars), Design Award Search (SeanJ1ang/design-judge-skills, 712 stars), Tw Formal Writing (Imbad0202/tw-formal-writing, 179 stars) and China Lawyer Analyst (CSlawyer1985/china-lawyer-analyst, 196 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Privilege Sentinel?

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.