Topic · Legal & Compliance
Best legal research skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Legal research skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Retrieve real Taiwan court judgments with verifiable citations before answering any question about Taiwan law or case law. | aa0101181514/ | 328 | — | ~580 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 2 | Find and verify award-winning designs in the same or adjacent functional category through eight explicit relevance dimensions: problem and user, core function, sensing technology, intervention… | SeanJ1ang/ | 712 | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 3 | 通过中国法律视角分析事件,运用成文法解释、指导案例参照、请求权基础分析等方法, 理解权利义务、评估责任风险、识别法律依据并推荐合规策略。 | CSlawyer1985/ | 196 | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 8 mo ago |
| 4 | Deliberate-choice procedure for a medium-to-high-stakes engineering fork — when the first plausible solution (the instinct, the default next-token pull) would be costly to get wrong. | syahiidkamil/ | 401 | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 3 mo ago |
| 5 | A skill your agent uses when the user needs to track or manage attorney hours, expert fees, and investigation costs; control litigation spend; or prepare timesheets or expense statements for clients. | THUYRan/ | 873 | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 6 | Case full-lifecycle planning skill. An agent skill from THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese. | THUYRan/ | 873 | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 7 | 中国法律全领域系统性检索专家. An agent skill from Golden2002/legal-research-skill. | Golden2002/ | 156 | — | ~6.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 8 | Searches current Chinese tax laws, rates and policy changes with Tavily web search, prioritizing government sources and flagging outdated or conflicting results. | Serein-81/ | 148 | — | ~997 | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 4 mo ago |
| 9 | A skill your agent uses when the user asks to find, read, or cite U.S. | LegalQuants/ | 150 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 10 | 10.Recall A skill your agent uses when the user describes a task and wants to know whether something similar has been done before, then turn the closest prior session into a task playbook. | entireio/ | 223 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 10 days ago |
| 11 | Searches USPTO patent and trademark data through its APIs: patent search, PEDS examination history, assignments, citations, office actions and TSDR status. | davila7/ | 32k | 11 repos | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 12 | A skill your agent uses when the user asks for help with corporate credit due diligence, enterprise credit investigation, pre-loan review, borrower analysis, document collection, management… | aifinlab/ | 254 | — | ~952 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 mo ago |
| 13 | Architectural movements, design philosophy, critical theory, precedent analysis, and compositional principles for informed design reasoning | Abhinavbwj/ | 296 | 1 repo | ~8.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 14 | Calendar litigation and arbitration deadlines from a scheduling order. | lawve-ai/ | 842 | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 15 | Chinese-language skill that organizes a case file into a multi-role mock trial with judge, parties and clerk, producing a transcript, issue review and a to-strengthen list. | cat-xierluo/ | 717 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-NC-4.0 | yesterday |
| 16 | A skill your agent uses when you need a bank corporate-risk monitoring assistant for enterprise litigation/penalty/enforcement scanning (处罚/诉讼/被执行/失信等). | aifinlab/ | 254 | — | ~751 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 mo ago |
| 17 | Apply when facing a novel UI interaction or architectural decision with no precedent in the codebase. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~288 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 days ago |
| 18 | Checks a Finnish legal document, such as a contract, statement, appeal or decision, in eight stages, looking for errors, gaps and risks before it is signed or submitted. | akunikkola/ | 109 | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 19 | Research and analyze urban design precedents systematically. | Abhinavbwj/ | 132 | 1 repo | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 mo ago |
| 20 | ARA World Model — read-only reasoning engine over ONE Agent-Native Research Artifact (ARA), run LOCALLY with the coding agent itself as the LLM (no SDK, no API key). | ARA-Labs/ | 692 | — | ~626 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 21 | A skill your agent uses when the user asks about verifiable quantitative facts (stock prices, financial indicators, macro data, company registry, academic metrics, legal statutes) that must come… | DemonDamon/ | 315 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 22 | Find, screen, rank, and synthesize Chinese capital-markets regulatory precedents and comparable filing responses. | QiushenZou/ | 102 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 23 | Trigger this skill when the AI agent must handle any of the following situations: 1. | THUYRan/ | 873 | — | ~14k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 24 | Activate this agent for any future-oriented question that requires deep quantitative analysis, historical precedents, and structured scenario planning. | davepoon/ | 3.6k | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 25 | Generate a therapeutic indication dossier. An agent skill from JimLiu/science-skills. | JimLiu/ | 227 | 4 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 3 mo ago |
| 26 | 生成专业的法律结构可视化图,输出为自包含 HTML 文件(内嵌 SVG,浅色主题,适合打印和嵌入文档)。适用场景:(1) 用户要求"画结构图""生成可视化""做流程图""法律图示"时;(2) 涉及诉讼推理结构(当事人→证据→事实→法律→判决);(3) 合同关系图(甲乙方权利义务、履约节点、违约责任);(4) 法规程序图(申请→审查→决定→救济);(5)… | zh-xx/ | 173 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 27 | 27.UX Review Senior-UX-reviewer process. An agent skill from prestomation/ha-home-keeper. | prestomation/ | 104 | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 28 | Independent power-user audit of a big new-feature PR. An agent skill from pydantic/pydantic-ai. | pydantic/ | 20k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 29 | Compares the same clause or provision across draft rounds, precedents, public agreements or a portfolio and reports what differs in wording and effect. | rohasnagpal/ | 175 | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 8 days ago |
| 30 | Trigger this skill when an AI agent needs to organize legal reasoning results into a complete, internally consistent, and persuasive argumentative structure. | THUYRan/ | 873 | — | ~17k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 31 | Search for ComfyUI workflow precedents, VibeComfy ready templates, node wiring examples, Banodoco/Hivemind community workflow knowledge, and concrete graph patterns before editing or adding a… | peteromallet/ | 150 | — | ~966 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 8 days ago |
| 32 | Drafts a complete contract from a term sheet, negotiated heads or plain instructions — parties, recitals, definitions, operative clauses, schedules and boilerplate — in a specified posture and… | rohasnagpal/ | 175 | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 8 days ago |
| 33 | After an AI agent completes a segment of legal reasoning or argumentation, it must self-assess the resulting conclusion: judge the overall strength and confidence of the argument, and identify and… | THUYRan/ | 873 | — | ~13k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 34 | Precedent M&A transactions analysis with deal multiples and acquisition history | daloopa/ | 489 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 35 | Deep briefing on one matter — current posture, what's changed, next deadline, open questions, and a risk re-assessment check, ready before a GC update or outside counsel call. | anthropics/ | 9.6k | 3 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 10 days ago |
| 36 | Close a matter — capture outcome, final exposure, and lessons, then archive it out of the active portfolio without deleting the record. | anthropics/ | 9.6k | 3 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 10 days ago |
| 37 | Append a dated event to a matter's history file and refresh the log row — captures new developments, status changes, risk re-assessments, deadline shifts, and settlement authority changes. | anthropics/ | 9.6k | 3 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 10 days ago |
| 38 | Manage matter workspaces for multi-client practices — create, list, switch, close, or detach the active matter. | anthropics/ | 9.6k | 3 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 10 days ago |
| 39 | Research roadmap for a legal issue — statutes to check, case law areas to investigate, regulatory frameworks, Westlaw search terms. | anthropics/ | 9.6k | 3 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 10 days ago |
| 40 | 40.Mpep Search Expert system for searching USPTO MPEP, 35 USC statutes, 37 CFR regulations, and post-Jan 2024 updates. | RobThePCGuy/ | 196 | — | ~978 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 41 | 41.Claim Chart Build or review an element chart. An agent skill from ZekaiSuni/claude-for-legal-turkish. | ZekaiSuni/ | 107 | — | ~719 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 mo ago |
| 42 | Trigger this skill when the user needs to find similar cases, related judgments, or adjudicative rules relevant to a current legal issue. | THUYRan/ | 873 | — | ~18k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 43 | Pre-drafting context gathering for a demand letter — parties, facts, basis, leverage, BATNA, and privilege filters — written to a structured intake.md the demand-draft skill reads. | anthropics/ | 9.6k | 2 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 10 days ago |
| 44 | Triage an inbound demand letter — extract fields, cross-check the portfolio, assess merit, present response options with a recommendation, and hand off to matter-intake or demand-intake if… | anthropics/ | 9.6k | 2 repos | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 10 days ago |
| 45 | Generate weekly status-request email drafts to outside counsel across the active portfolio — markdown per matter, plus Gmail drafts when the MCP is available. | anthropics/ | 9.6k | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 10 days ago |
| 46 | Translates a contract review into a summary the business stakeholder will actually read. | anthropics/ | 9.6k | 2 repos | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 10 days ago |
| 47 | Draft a unanimous written consent of the board or a committee in house format, with precedent search from the consents repository. | anthropics/ | 9.6k | 2 repos | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 10 days ago |
| 48 | Guided customization of your corporate practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. | anthropics/ | 9.6k | 3 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 10 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best legal research skill?
Tw Legal RAG from aa0101181514/tw-legal-rag ranks first of the 143 legal research skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 328 GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 580 tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Design Award Search and China Lawyer Analyst.
Which legal research skills are official?
20 of the 143 legal research skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Principle Exhaust The Design Space, Poweruser Feature Audit, Matter Briefing, Matter Close, Matter Update and 15 more.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.