Agent skill

Inductive Reasoning

by THUYRan in THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese

Trigger this skill when one or more concrete cases, judgments, or fact patterns must be distilled into general legal rules, adjudicative rules, or legal principles.

No licenceAuto-check passedLegal & Compliance

Install Inductive Reasoning

skills CLI
$ npx skills add THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese --skill inductive-reasoning -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese inductive-reasoning --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/THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/English/skills/inductive-reasoning .claude/skills/inductive-reasoning && 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
inductive-reasoning
GitHub stars
868
Token cost
~5.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,809 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
71
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Trigger this skill when one or more concrete cases, judgments, or fact patterns must be distilled into general legal rules, adjudicative rules, or legal principles.

  • Works in 3 steps: Identify the core legal dispute: Convert… → Bidirectional precedent retrieval → Build a comparison baseline table:…
  • This skill when one
  • SKILL.md covers Overview Table, Legal Disclaimer, Description and Capabilities, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Inductive Reasoning is an agent skill from THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese. Trigger this skill when one or more concrete cases, judgments, or fact patterns must be distilled into general legal rules, adjudicative rules, or legal principles. Typical triggers include: summarizing adjudicative holdings from a series of cases; extracting generalizable legal propositions from individual cases; identifying common legal rules across multiple fact patterns; building adjudicative-rule digests for similar-case retrieval; and summarizing judicial application standards from practice precedents.

Its SKILL.md is about 5.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Legal & Compliance, covering Legal research.

When your agent uses it

  • This skill when one
  • More concrete cases
  • Fact patterns must be distilled into general legal rules
  • Adjudicative rules

Example prompts

  • “/inductive-reasoning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Identify the core legal dispute: Convert the pending case facts into a precise legal proposition and clarify the rule gap that induction…
  2. Bidirectional precedent retrieval
  3. Build a comparison baseline table: Extract features of the pending case and candidate precedents along these dimensions

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c31ef1f. 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

Inductive Reasoning loads about 5.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 133 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,809 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~133
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,809 words (~5,428 tokens).

“A probabilistic reasoning skill that moves from the particular to the general, suited to case-law systems. When no ready-made legal rule can be applied by matching, it inductively extracts general legal rules or principles from concrete precedents—activity that is legislative…”

— opening of SKILL.md by THUYRan
name
inductive-reasoning

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in English/skills/inductive-reasoning of THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c31ef1f

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Hard Predict Futuredavepoon/buildwithclaude3.6k1 repos~4.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Legal Issue ResearchGolden2002/legal-research-skill155—~6.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Inductive Reasoning

What does Inductive Reasoning do?

Trigger this skill when one or more concrete cases, judgments, or fact patterns must be distilled into general legal rules, adjudicative rules, or legal principles. Inductive Reasoning is an agent skill from THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese. Trigger this skill when one or more concrete cases, judgments, or fact patterns must be distilled into general legal rules, adjudicative rules, or legal principles.

When should I use Inductive Reasoning?

Inductive Reasoning fits situations like: this skill when one; more concrete cases; fact patterns must be distilled into general legal rules; adjudicative rules.

How do I install Inductive Reasoning in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese --skill inductive-reasoning -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (English/skills/inductive-reasoning in THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese) into .claude/skills/inductive-reasoning in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Inductive Reasoning in Codex?

Run `npx skills add THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese --skill inductive-reasoning -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (English/skills/inductive-reasoning in THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese) into .agents/skills/inductive-reasoning in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Inductive Reasoning 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 THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese --skill inductive-reasoning -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/inductive-reasoning, .gemini/skills/inductive-reasoning, .github/skills/inductive-reasoning and .opencode/skills/inductive-reasoning in your project.

What does Inductive Reasoning need to run?

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

Does Inductive Reasoning 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 Inductive Reasoning 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 Inductive Reasoning use?

No licence was found for Inductive Reasoning or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Inductive Reasoning use?

About 5.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 22k 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 Inductive Reasoning?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Inductive Reasoning: Tw Legal RAG (aa0101181514/tw-legal-rag, 327 stars), Design Award Search (SeanJ1ang/design-judge-skills, 712 stars), China Lawyer Analyst (CSlawyer1985/china-lawyer-analyst, 194 stars) and Hard Predict Future (davepoon/buildwithclaude, 3.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Inductive Reasoning?

THUYRan (a GitHub user) maintains it in THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese, which has 868 GitHub stars. The repository holds 71 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 22, 2026.

Source: THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.