Topic · Legal & Compliance

Best legal research skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Skills that research case law and statutes and draft legal memos.
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Legal research skills, ranked

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Legal research skills, ranked
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Retrieve real Taiwan court judgments with verifiable citations before answering any question about Taiwan law or case law.

aa0101181514/tw-legal-rag328—~580Automated safety check: PassUnknownyesterday
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/design-judge-skills712—~3kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.01 mo ago
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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/china-lawyer-analyst196—~3.3kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence8 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/Software-Engineer-AI-Agent-Atlas401—~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence3 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/Legal-Skills-Chinese873—~5kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence1 mo ago
6

Case full-lifecycle planning skill. An agent skill from THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese.

THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese873—~1kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence1 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/legal-research-skill156—~6.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
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Searches current Chinese tax laws, rates and policy changes with Tavily web search, prioritizing government sources and flagging outdated or conflicting results.

Serein-81/financial_rag148—~997Automated safety check: NotesNo licence4 mo ago
9

A skill your agent uses when the user asks to find, read, or cite U.S.

LegalQuants/lq-ai150—~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0yesterday
10

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/skills223—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT10 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/claude-code-templates32k11 repos~4.6kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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/FinClaw254—~952Automated safety check: PassApache-2.04 mo ago
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Architectural movements, design philosophy, critical theory, precedent analysis, and compositional principles for informed design reasoning

Abhinavbwj/Skills-Architects2961 repo~8.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
14

Calendar litigation and arbitration deadlines from a scheduling order.

lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills842—~4.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 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/legal-skills717—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassCC-BY-NC-4.0yesterday
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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/FinClaw254—~751Automated safety check: PassApache-2.04 mo ago
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Apply when facing a novel UI interaction or architectural decision with no precedent in the codebase.

cursor/plugins10k8 repos~288Automated safety check: PassNo licence2 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/claude-for-legal-finland109—~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 mo ago
19

Research and analyze urban design precedents systematically.

Abhinavbwj/Urban-Design-Skills-Claude1321 repo~5.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 mo ago
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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/Agent-Native-Research-Artifact692—~626Automated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
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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/AgenticX315—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
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Find, screen, rank, and synthesize Chinese capital-markets regulatory precedents and comparable filing responses.

QiushenZou/cn-investment-banking-skills102—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.01 mo ago
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Trigger this skill when the AI agent must handle any of the following situations: 1.

THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese873—~14kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence1 mo ago
24

Activate this agent for any future-oriented question that requires deep quantitative analysis, historical precedents, and structured scenario planning.

davepoon/buildwithclaude3.6k—~4.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
25

Generate a therapeutic indication dossier. An agent skill from JimLiu/science-skills.

JimLiu/science-skills2274 repos~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.03 mo ago
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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/legal-assistant-skills173—~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT5 mo ago
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Senior-UX-reviewer process. An agent skill from prestomation/ha-home-keeper.

prestomation/ha-home-keeper104—~3kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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Independent power-user audit of a big new-feature PR. An agent skill from pydantic/pydantic-ai.

pydantic/pydantic-ai20k—~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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Compares the same clause or provision across draft rounds, precedents, public agreements or a portfolio and reports what differs in wording and effect.

rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills175—~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
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Trigger this skill when an AI agent needs to organize legal reasoning results into a complete, internally consistent, and persuasive argumentative structure.

THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese873—~17kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence1 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/VibeComfy150—~966Automated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
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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/legal-ai-skills175—~3.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
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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/Legal-Skills-Chinese873—~13kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence1 mo ago
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Precedent M&A transactions analysis with deal multiples and acquisition history

daloopa/investing489—~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.02 days ago
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35.Matter BriefingOfficial

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/claude-for-legal9.6k3 repos~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.010 days ago
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36.Matter CloseOfficial

Close a matter — capture outcome, final exposure, and lessons, then archive it out of the active portfolio without deleting the record.

anthropics/claude-for-legal9.6k3 repos~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.010 days ago
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37.Matter UpdateOfficial

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/claude-for-legal9.6k3 repos~2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.010 days ago
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38.Matter WorkspaceOfficial

Manage matter workspaces for multi-client practices — create, list, switch, close, or detach the active matter.

anthropics/claude-for-legal9.6k3 repos~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.010 days ago
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39.Research StartOfficial

Research roadmap for a legal issue — statutes to check, case law areas to investigate, regulatory frameworks, Westlaw search terms.

anthropics/claude-for-legal9.6k3 repos~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.010 days ago
40

Expert system for searching USPTO MPEP, 35 USC statutes, 37 CFR regulations, and post-Jan 2024 updates.

RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator196—~978Automated safety check: PassMIT3 days ago
41

Build or review an element chart. An agent skill from ZekaiSuni/claude-for-legal-turkish.

ZekaiSuni/claude-for-legal-turkish107—~719Automated safety check: PassApache-2.04 mo ago
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Trigger this skill when the user needs to find similar cases, related judgments, or adjudicative rules relevant to a current legal issue.

THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese873—~18kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence1 mo ago
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43.Demand IntakeOfficial

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/claude-for-legal9.6k2 repos~3.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.010 days ago
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44.Demand ReceivedOfficial

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/claude-for-legal9.6k2 repos~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.010 days ago
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45.Oc StatusOfficial

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/claude-for-legal9.6k2 repos~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.010 days ago
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Translates a contract review into a summary the business stakeholder will actually read.

anthropics/claude-for-legal9.6k2 repos~3.3kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.010 days ago
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47.Written ConsentOfficial

Draft a unanimous written consent of the board or a committee in house format, with precedent search from the consents repository.

anthropics/claude-for-legal9.6k2 repos~5.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.010 days ago
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48.CustomizeOfficial

Guided customization of your corporate practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview.

anthropics/claude-for-legal9.6k3 repos~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.010 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.