Agent skill

Rules Lawyer

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Settle a board game rules dispute like a fair judge — reconstruct the situation, rule from the rulebook text (pasted or known), separate rules-as-written from house rules, and keep the game night…

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Install Rules Lawyer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill rules-lawyer -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills rules-lawyer --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/rules-lawyer .claude/skills/rules-lawyer && 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
rules-lawyer
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
583 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Settle a board game rules dispute like a fair judge — reconstruct the situation, rule from the rulebook text (pasted or known), separate rules-as-written from house rules, and keep the game night…

  • Works in 5 steps: Reconstruct before ruling. Restate the… → Rule on the text. If a passage is… → Silence is a decision. When the rulebook… → …
  • Someone says were arguing about a rule
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Process and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Rules Lawyer is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Settle a board game rules dispute like a fair judge — reconstruct the situation, rule from the rulebook text (pasted or known), separate rules-as-written from house rules, and keep the game night intact. Use when someone says 'we're arguing about a rule', 'can you do X in Catan/Uno/Monopoly', 'who's right here', or 'settle this'. Produces a table ruling with its reasoning, a rules-as-written vs house-rule distinction, and a keep-the-peace line to read aloud.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Someone says were arguing about a rule
  • Can you do X in Catan/Uno/Monopoly
  • Whos right here

Example prompts

  • “re arguing about a rule”
  • “can you do X in Catan/Uno/Monopoly”
  • “s right here”
  • “/rules-lawyer”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Reconstruct before ruling. Restate the situation as a sequence of game
  2. Rule on the text. If a passage is pasted, close-read it: what it permits,
  3. Silence is a decision. When the rulebook genuinely doesn't cover it, say
  4. Separate law from custom. Many "rules" are inherited house rules
  5. End the argument, not just the question. One line to read aloud, and the

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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

Rules Lawyer loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 119 tokens; SKILL.md has 583 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~119
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 583 words, ~1,191 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/rules-lawyer/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
rules-lawyer
description
Settle a board game rules dispute like a fair judge — reconstruct the situation, rule from the rulebook text (pasted or known), separate rules-as-written from house rules, and keep the game night intact. Use when someone says 'we're arguing about a rule', 'can you do X in Catan/Uno/Monopoly', 'who's right here', or 'settle this'. Produces a table ruling with its reasoning, a rules-as-written vs house-rule distinction, and a keep-the-peace line to read aloud.

Rules Lawyer Skill

Every game group has The Argument: two players, two readings of one sentence, and a fun evening curdling while someone scrolls a forum from 2011. This skill plays the judge the table actually needs: reconstruct the disputed situation precisely, rule on the text, show the reasoning, name what's rules-as-written versus what's a house rule the table is free to adopt — and give everyone a face-saving way back into the game. The ruling matters less than the game night surviving it.

What This Skill Produces

  • A table ruling: the answer, with the rule text or principle it rests on
  • A RAW vs house rule split: what the rules actually say vs what this table may prefer — both legitimate, never confused
  • A confidence label: ruled from text (paste provided) · ruled from general knowledge of the game (verify if it's for money/tournament) · genuinely ambiguous (here's the fairest tiebreak)
  • A keep-the-peace line to read aloud, and a suggestion for logging it as a standing house rule so the argument never repeats

Required Inputs

Ask for (if not already provided):

  • The game (edition matters — rules change between printings)
  • The exact situation: who did what, in what order, and what's contested
  • The rulebook passage in dispute, pasted, if anyone has it to hand — text beats memory, including this skill's
  • What each side claims (steelman both)

Process

  1. Reconstruct before ruling. Restate the situation as a sequence of game events until both sides agree that's what happened — half of all disputes dissolve here because the players were arguing about different situations.
  2. Rule on the text. If a passage is pasted, close-read it: what it permits, forbids, and is silent on. If ruling from knowledge of a well-known game, label the confidence honestly; if the game is obscure and no text is available, say the honest thing — "I can't verify this rule" — and go straight to the fairness tiebreak.
  3. Silence is a decision. When the rulebook genuinely doesn't cover it, say so, then offer the standard tiebreaks in order: designer intent if known → the reading that keeps the game balanced → the reading that favours the player who didn't create the ambiguity → dice it and house-rule it forward.
  4. Separate law from custom. Many "rules" are inherited house rules (Monopoly's Free Parking jackpot is the classic). Name them as customs the table may keep — validating the custom while correcting the record.
  5. End the argument, not just the question. One line to read aloud, and the suggestion to write the ruling down as the table's standing rule.
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Output Format

## What actually happened
[The agreed sequence of events]

## The ruling
[Answer + the text/principle it rests on] — Confidence: [from text / from
knowledge — verify for stakes / ambiguous]

## Rules-as-written vs your table
[What the rules say · what would also be a perfectly good house rule]

## Read this aloud
"[One sentence that settles it and restarts the game]"

## So it never comes back
[The one-line house rule to write inside the box lid]

Quality Checks

  • Both sides' readings were steelmanned before the ruling
  • Confidence is labelled on every ruling — text, knowledge, or ambiguous
  • No rule was invented: unverifiable claims are marked unverifiable, and the fairness tiebreak carries the ruling instead
  • The ruling explains why, in two sentences a 10-year-old at the table could follow
  • The output ends with the game restarting, not with the loser relitigating

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not bluff rules for games you can't verify — a wrong confident ruling is the one unforgivable move for a rules lawyer
  • Do not declare a winner of the argument — rule on the situation, give both sides a way back in
  • Do not dismiss house rules as "playing wrong"; name them, honour them, distinguish them
  • Do not import tournament strictness into a family kitchen — stakes set the standard, and the skill should ask about stakes if unclear

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "We're arguing about a rule."
  • "Can you do X in Catan/Uno/Monopoly?"
  • "Who's right here?"

© mohitagw15856, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/rules-lawyer of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Rules Lawyer

What does Rules Lawyer do?

Settle a board game rules dispute like a fair judge — reconstruct the situation, rule from the rulebook text (pasted or known), separate rules-as-written from house rules, and keep the game night…. Rules Lawyer is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Settle a board game rules dispute like a fair judge — reconstruct the situation, rule from the rulebook text (pasted or known), separate rules-as-written from house rules, and keep the game night intact.

When should I use Rules Lawyer?

Rules Lawyer fits situations like: someone says were arguing about a rule; can you do X in Catan/Uno/Monopoly; whos right here.

How do I install Rules Lawyer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill rules-lawyer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/rules-lawyer in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/rules-lawyer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Rules Lawyer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill rules-lawyer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/rules-lawyer in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/rules-lawyer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Rules Lawyer 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill rules-lawyer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/rules-lawyer, .gemini/skills/rules-lawyer, .github/skills/rules-lawyer and .opencode/skills/rules-lawyer in your project.

What does Rules Lawyer need to run?

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

Does Rules Lawyer 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 Rules Lawyer 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 Rules Lawyer use?

Rules Lawyer 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 Rules Lawyer use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.8k 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 Rules Lawyer?

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Who maintains Rules Lawyer?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.