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Cold-Start Interview for Legal Skills

Interviews you about your legal practice and recommends and installs a starter pack of community legal skills.

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

What it does

This skill is an onboarding guide for a larger library of community-made legal skills. When triggered, the agent asks a short set of questions about your role, practice area, industry, team and tool comfort, then suggests a starter set of skills to install. It can also check which connected tools (MCP connectors) actually respond, record your answers in a settings file, and optionally save a shared company profile for other legal plugins to reuse. Installing is only done for skills you pick.

Great for

  • Lawyers or legal teams setting up the claude-for-legal plugin family for the first time
  • Users who want help choosing which community legal skills to try first
  • Anyone re-checking which connected tools are working after adding or removing a connector

Skip it if

  • Anyone expecting legal advice: the skill only sorts and installs other skills, and its output does not replace review by a qualified lawyer
  • Users who want a practice-area workflow directly; the file itself says to install the specific legal-* plugin instead
  • Users who are unsure where their files are stored: the setup reads and writes configuration files in the home directory and may ask to install into a project folder, which limits what the agent can read

Try asking

  • “Get me started with the legal plugins.”
  • “What should I install first? I'm an in-house counsel at a mid-sized software company.”
  • “Re-run the integration check, I just added a new MCP connector.”
  • “Redo my legal practice profile from scratch.”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Cold-Start Interview for Legal SkillsInstall, 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 questions honestly; the recommendations and the saved profile depend entirely on what you type.
  • Review each recommended skill's summary before approving an install, since installs add new capabilities to your agent.
  • Use the quick setup first and upgrade later with the --full option if you want a more tailored starter pack.

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.