Agent skill

Statute Briefer

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

Brief statutes and legislative Acts using the MAPS + RULES framework.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedLegal & Compliance

Install Statute Briefer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill statute-briefer -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills statute-briefer --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/statute-briefer-seth-chandler .claude/skills/statute-briefer && 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
statute-briefer
GitHub stars
847
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
542 words
Files
5 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
154
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Brief statutes and legislative Acts using the MAPS + RULES framework.

  • Works in 6 steps: Scenario synopsis – Legally salient… → Issues framed as statutory questions –… → Relevant excerpts (verbatim) –… → …
  • Briefing statutes
  • SKILL.md covers Input Modes, Output Structure, Mandatory Constraints and Selection Rules, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Statute Briefer is an agent skill from lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills. Brief statutes and legislative Acts using the MAPS + RULES framework. Use when briefing statutes, analyzing legislative text, mapping statutory structure, extracting rule-modules from provisions, applying statutes to scenarios, or any statutory analysis task. Triggers include "brief this statute," "analyze this Act," "map the statute," "apply [statute] to [scenario]," "what are the elements of [provision]," "statutory analysis," or references to codified sections (such as 42 U.S.C. sections or Texas Health &…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `README.md`, `references/example-brief.md` and `references/rule-module-template.md`).

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

When your agent uses it

  • Briefing statutes
  • Analyzing legislative text
  • Mapping statutory structure
  • Extracting rule-modules from provisions

Example prompts

  • “brief this statute,”
  • “analyze this Act,”
  • “map the statute,”
  • “/statute-briefer”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Scenario synopsis – Legally salient facts only
  2. Issues framed as statutory questions – Frame disputes as statutory interpretation questions
  3. Relevant excerpts (verbatim) – Block-quoted text with pinpoint cites; include adjacent definitions/exceptions
  4. Application map (statute-to-facts) – For each issue: elements met, unclear, or disputed; identify missing facts
  5. Context map (where excerpts live) – Title/Chapter/Section path for each excerpt
  6. Not used but structurally important – Major Act components not triggered by scenario

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

Statute Briefer loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 175 tokens; SKILL.md has 542 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~175
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~5.4k

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 542 words (~1,501 tokens).

“Produce structured statute/Act briefs that (a) map the architecture of the entire statute/Act and (b) express operative provisions as rule-modules. Optionally apply provisions to scenarios with verbatim quotations.”

— opening of SKILL.md by lawve-ai, Custom licence
name
statute-briefer

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in skills/statute-briefer-seth-chandler of lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • README.md
  • references/example-brief.md
  • references/rule-module-template.md
  • references/scenario-template.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 045f738

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Questions about Statute Briefer

What does Statute Briefer do?

Brief statutes and legislative Acts using the MAPS + RULES framework. Statute Briefer is an agent skill from lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills. Brief statutes and legislative Acts using the MAPS + RULES framework.

When should I use Statute Briefer?

Statute Briefer fits situations like: briefing statutes; analyzing legislative text; mapping statutory structure; extracting rule-modules from provisions.

How do I install Statute Briefer in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Statute Briefer in Codex?

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

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

What does Statute Briefer need to run?

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

Does Statute Briefer 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 Statute Briefer 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 Statute Briefer use?

Statute Briefer 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 Statute Briefer use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k 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 3.9k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Statute Briefer?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Statute Briefer: Tw Legal RAG (aa0101181514/tw-legal-rag, 328 stars), Design Award Search (SeanJ1ang/design-judge-skills, 712 stars), China Lawyer Analyst (CSlawyer1985/china-lawyer-analyst, 196 stars) and Billing And Litigation Budget (THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese, 874 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Statute Briefer?

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.