International Expansion Kickoff
Starts planning a new-country hire: intake, EOR vs. entity framing, country flags, and a saved tracker
- Repository
- anthropics/claude-for-legal
- Stars
- 9,870
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Files
- 1 file
What it does
When you tell the agent you're hiring or expanding into a country, this skill has it gather basic intake details and frame the choice between using an Employer of Record (a third party that employs staff locally) and setting up your own legal entity. It then drafts questions for HR, finance and legal, notes country-specific flags, and saves a persistent tracker file so the project can be picked up later. It relies on a companion reference skill (international-expansion) for the detailed framework and templates, and on a config file describing your jurisdictional footprint and escalation table.
Great for
- HR, people-ops or legal teams planning a first hire in a new country
- Founders or managers who need a structured checklist before talking to an EOR provider or local counsel
- Teams that want a saved, updatable record of expansion work across sessions
Skip it if
- Final legal or tax decisions: the output is a planning aid and the files only cover what the referenced skill contains, so local employment counsel should verify requirements
- Users without the claude-for-legal plugin configuration: the skill loads config and reference files that are not included in this package and may not work standalone
Try asking
- “we're hiring in Germany, where do we start?”
- “/employment-legal:expansion-kickoff Japan”
- “expansion to Brazil: draft questions for finance and HR”
- “first hire in Canada, compare EOR vs. setting up an entity”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.
expansion-kickoff.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip expansion-kickoff.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip expansion-kickoff.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 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
- Set up your CLAUDE.md jurisdictional footprint and escalation table first so flags reflect your existing countries and policies.
- Run it with the country name as the argument, and check the tracker file it creates before relying on it.
- Use the suggested /employment-legal:expansion-update command later to keep the tracker current rather than restarting.
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.