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Law Student Setup Interview

Interviews a law student about classes, bar plans, and study style, then saves a study profile.

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

What it does

When installed, the agent runs a guided setup interview for a law student. It asks about year in school, current classes, bar exam timing, whether the student prefers being drilled or having concepts explained, weak and strong subjects, and past materials like outlines, graded essays, and old exams. It then writes a plain-text study profile to a config file that other law-student commands read from, so later study help matches how the student learves. It can also re-check which connected tools are available.

Great for

  • Law students (1L, 2L, 3L) starting to use the law-student plugin for the first time
  • Bar exam candidates who want study help tailored to their jurisdiction and test dates
  • Students who want to change their study profile later with --redo or --check-integrations

Skip it if

  • Non-law-students or practicing lawyers, since the plugin is built for study rather than client work and the skill itself directs them elsewhere
  • Users who do not want personal academic details (classes, grades, weak areas) saved to a local file, since that is the purpose of the interview

Try asking

  • “Set up my law student profile, I'm a 2L studying for the NY bar in July”
  • “Get started with the law-student plugin, I prefer to be drilled rather than have things explained”
  • “Re-run the integration check after I added a new connector --check-integrations”
  • “Redo my study profile because my classes changed this semester --redo”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Law Student Setup InterviewInstall, 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

  • Pick quick mode first (about 2 minutes) and upgrade later with --full if you want the 15-minute version
  • Install user-scoped rather than project-scoped so the plugin can read documents from Downloads or Documents
  • Only share materials you are comfortable having summarized into a local profile file

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.