How to use the Case Status Summaries agent skill

What is an agent skill, and what does this one do?

An agent skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file that gives an AI agent a set of instructions for a specific task. This one is named status and is invoked as /status with an argument of client, internal, or court.

The skill takes the case notes you supply and reframes the same facts for the chosen reader. It does not add facts of its own; the case notes are the factual source. Client drafts use plain language, internal drafts cover procedural posture and the student's assessment, and court drafts follow a formal caption format per local rules.

• client: what happened, what's next, what you need to do, how to reach the clinic
• internal: procedural posture, work done since last check-in, upcoming dates, items needing professor input, the student's assessment
• court: a formal status report with procedural history, current status, outstanding matters and proposed next steps

Install the status skill

Download the ZIP for this skill from this page. Unzip it into one of two locations: ~/.claude/skills/ to make it available across your work, or a project's .claude/skills/ folder to limit it to that project.

Alternatively, upload the skill in the Claude apps under Settings → Capabilities → Skills.

• Personal install: unzip into ~/.claude/skills/
• Project install: unzip into .claude/skills/ inside the project folder
• App install: Settings → Capabilities → Skills in the Claude apps

Set up the required configuration file

The skill loads a clinic configuration file before it writes anything. It reads supervision style, plain-language standards and jurisdiction from this path:

The skill is designed to rely on this file for the supervision workflow. Without it, the skill has no clinic-specific supervision style, plain-language standard or jurisdiction to work from.

Trigger the skill with a request

You can run the skill with the slash command for the audience you need. The source documents these three forms:

You can also make a natural request, such as asking the agent to update a client, brief the professor, or prepare a court status report. The skill's description says it is used when a student needs to update the client, brief the professor, or prepare a court status report.

Before drafting, the skill reads your case notes for the facts. Then it generates the document for the audience you named.

• Natural request examples: "Update my client on the hearing schedule in plain language." / "Brief Professor Lee on where the discovery dispute stands." / "Draft the court status report ordered for next Tuesday."

Review every draft before it goes anywhere

Each audience has a review step. Client-facing drafts carry the label [AI-ASSISTED DRAFT — requires student review and supervision step per plugin config], which you strip before sending. The skill treats a client status update as a consequential action, and the gate is the supervision workflow in the clinic configuration file.

Court-ready drafts are marked AI-assisted and must be reviewed by a professor before filing. The court template includes a [VERIFY] note on caption format, local status report requirements and service requirements, which you must check against current local rules.

Internal drafts are going to the professor anyway, so the source treats them as not flagged. The student's assessment section is your own thinking and should be revised by you.

• Confirm the draft has been reviewed under the supervision protocol (queue, flag or lighter-touch) in your clinic configuration
• Remove all internal review labels such as [AI-ASSISTED DRAFT] and [VERIFY] from client-facing copy
• Check your jurisdiction's student practice rule for required sign-off language

What the skill will not do

The skill does not decide what to tell the client. Bad news and case weaknesses are conversations for the student and professor to plan first. The skill does not send anything and does not file anything with a court. It also cannot write the student's assessment in an internal status; it can scaffold that section but not write it.

• Does not send client messages
• Does not file with a court; it only drafts
• Does not decide strategy or how to deliver bad news
• Does not write the student's assessment section

Safety notes: scripts and network

This skill runs no scripts and uses no network access, according to its listing. Its inputs are your case notes and the clinic configuration file. Because the output is a draft for human review, treat anything it produces as unverified until a student and supervisor have checked the facts, dates and formatting.

Tips for better results

Give the skill complete, specific case notes, since they are the only factual source it uses. Keep dates and deadlines in the notes so the upcoming section and client next-steps can be filled accurately. Keep the clinic configuration file current, because the skill takes its supervision style and reading level from it.

The client template asks for plain English, for example "We filed your answer with the court on [date]" rather than formal procedural wording. The source sets a default reading level of 6th grade unless your configuration says otherwise.

• Keep case notes specific and dated
• Keep CLAUDE.md current with your supervision style and jurisdiction
• Run each audience separately rather than reusing one draft for all readers