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Cold-Start Interview Setup

Walks you through setting up your regulatory watchlist, policy library, and materiality threshold

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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 skill runs a guided setup interview that asks which regulators you follow, where your policy documents live, and what counts as material to you. It saves those answers to a plain-text configuration file that the regulatory-legal plugin reads later, so its monitoring and digests filter for what matters to you. It can also re-check which connected tools actually respond, without re-running the whole interview.

Great for

  • Legal or compliance staff installing the regulatory-legal plugin for the first time
  • Users who want to change their watchlist or thresholds later using the --redo option
  • Teams checking whether their connected data sources are working before relying on the monitor

Skip it if

  • People who do not track regulatory developments, since the plugin is aimed at regulatory and compliance work and the skill itself redirects others elsewhere
  • Anyone expecting legal advice: the skill only collects settings and writes a configuration file, and the resulting output still needs professional review
  • Users who want the skill to pull details from their personal Claude history or home-folder memory files, which the instructions explicitly forbid

Try asking

  • “Set up my regulatory watchlist and materiality threshold for the first time”
  • “Reconfigure my regulatory-legal settings with --redo”
  • “Check which of my connected integrations are actually responding with --check-integrations”
  • “Resume my setup where I left off last time”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Cold-Start Interview 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 interview questions specifically; the file says more specific answers produce quieter, more useful digests
  • Use --check-integrations to confirm connectors work, since configured-but-untested connectors are marked as unverified rather than working
  • Pick quick setup first and upgrade to full later with --full if you want the complete watchlist and feed options

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.