How to use the Law Student Profile Customizer 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 instructions for a specific task. When a request matches the skill's description, the agent follows those instructions.

The customize skill works on a law-student study profile that you have already created through the cold-start interview. It shows you a menu of profile sections, asks what you want to change, and explains which other study tools will behave differently as a result. After you confirm, it saves the change.

• Profile sections it covers include student profile, current classes, learning style, outline preferences, bar prep, seed materials, study workflow, and integrations.
• It warns about settings that conflict with each other, for example a summary-first learning style combined with maximum pushback.
• It will not delete a class. It offers to mark the class as archived and keeps its seed materials.
• It will not turn off the rule that the plugin does not write your graded work or legal essays. If you ask to turn that off, it confirms you understand the plugin will not write your work for you.

What you need before installing

The skill requires Claude Code or a compatible agent with the claude-for-legal law-student plugin installed. It also requires that you have completed the cold-start interview, which creates the config file at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/CLAUDE.md.

If you have not finished setup, the skill stops and asks you to run /law-student:cold-start-interview first. Customize adjusts a profile that already exists; it does not create one.

• Claude Code or a compatible agent with the claude-for-legal law-student plugin installed
• A completed cold-start interview, which creates the profile config file
• Runs scripts: no
• Uses network: no

Install the customize skill

Download the ZIP for this skill from this page and unzip it. You can install it in one of two ways.

For a personal install, unzip it into ~/.claude/skills/. To limit it to a single project, unzip it into that project's .claude/skills/ folder instead.

In the Claude apps, you can upload the skill instead. Go to Settings, then Capabilities, then Skills, and upload the ZIP there.

• Personal install: ~/.claude/skills/
• Project install: .claude/skills/ inside your project folder
• Claude apps: Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Trigger the skill with natural requests

You can invoke the skill with the command /law-student:customize, optionally followed by a section name or a description of the change. You can also ask in plain language. The skill's description lists phrases such as "change my [thing]", "add a class", "update my profile", "new semester", and "customize".

The agent first reads your config, then shows the customizable map and asks what you want to adjust. Answer with a section name or describe the change in your own words.

• "New semester: I'm adding Evidence and dropping Torts."
• "Change my learning style to summary-first."
• "Add a bar prep subject: Civil Procedure, and weight it higher because it's weak."
• "Update my profile: I'm now a 3L."

See how a change works in practice

The skill shows the current value, asks for the new value, explains what changes downstream, asks you to confirm, and then writes the change to the config. It changes one thing at a time and does not re-ask the whole interview.

Here is how the skill describes the effects of common changes. Adding a class means the outline builder will scaffold an outline for it, the flashcard tool will add a new subject bucket, and cold-call prep will ask for a seat and topic when you invoke it for that class. Switching learning style from Socratic to summary-first means the Socratic drill presents the rule and an example first, then quizzes you on application instead of asking you to answer first.

When you want to drop a class, the skill offers to mark it as archived with the note [Archived — retain seed materials] and explains how flashcard and outline behavior will change.

Safety notes: scripts and network

According to the skill's description, it runs no scripts and uses no network access. Its work consists of reading your config file and asking you to confirm changes before they are saved to it.

Because it edits your study profile, check the change summary before you confirm. The skill is designed to keep the no-ghost-writing rule on, and that rule is what keeps the value of the tools in structural feedback rather than written work.

• Runs scripts: no
• Uses network: no
• The skill reads and writes the profile config at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/CLAUDE.md

Tips for getting good results

Change one thing per request. The skill is built around single changes, and it will not re-run the whole interview for you.

Read the downstream explanation before confirming. It tells you which other study tools will behave differently.

Pay attention to conflict warnings. If a combination of settings is inconsistent, the skill flags it so you can decide what to keep.

• Make one change per request.
• Read the effects list before you confirm.
• Respond to conflict warnings instead of ignoring them.
• Use the section name as an argument if you already know which part to change.