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Employment Law Cold-Start Setup

Sets up an employment-law practice profile with jurisdiction-aware escalation rules from your handbook and memos.

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Repository
anthropics/claude-for-legal
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9,870
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
1 file

What it does

This is the first-run setup for an employment-law assistant. It asks which states and countries you have employees in, how you handle hiring, terminations and severance, and then reads your employee handbook and sample termination memos to build an escalation table that flags issues differently depending on the jurisdiction. It saves the result as a plain-text config file that the other employment-law commands read each time. It can also re-check which connected tools actually work.

Great for

  • Employment or HR legal staff setting up the claude-for-legal employment plugin for the first time
  • Teams that want jurisdiction-specific termination and escalation flags instead of generic advice
  • Users who need to re-run setup for one section, such as integrations, using --redo or --check-integrations

Skip it if

  • People who are not handling employment matters; the skill itself says to use a different hub skill instead
  • Anyone expecting legal advice: the output is a configuration profile that still needs review by qualified counsel, and default settings may not fit your organisation until tuned
  • Users who do not want their company documents read and summarised into a config file

Try asking

  • “Set up the employment-legal plugin for my company, which has employees in California, Texas and Ontario”
  • “Run the cold-start interview again but only check which integrations are connected”
  • “Read our handbook and last three termination memos and build the escalation table”
  • “Resume my unfinished employment-legal setup from where it paused”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Employment Law Cold-Start SetupInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    cold-start-interview.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip cold-start-interview.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip cold-start-interview.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Answer the jurisdiction questions carefully, since the escalation table depends on them; treat the [DEFAULT] values as starting points to tune rather than settled policy
  • Use --check-integrations after connecting tools, and trust only ✓ marks, which appear only after a successful test call rather than from config declarations alone
  • If you install at project scope, move your handbook and memo files into that folder or reinstall at user scope so the skill can read them

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from anthropics/claude-for-legal under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.