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Hiring Offer Review

Reviews offer letters for jurisdiction, exempt status, and restrictive covenant issues, with researched citations.

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

What it does

When you ask it to review an offer letter, the agent checks where the hire will actually work, whether the exempt or non-exempt classification fits the role, and whether any non-compete, non-solicit, or confidentiality terms are enforceable there. It does not rely on stored legal rules; it researches the current rules for each hire and tags each citation with its source so a lawyer can verify it. The skill is part of a legal-practice plugin and reads its own configuration files for the company's jurisdictions and policies.

Great for

  • In-house employment or HR legal teams reviewing offers before they go out
  • HR staff who need a first-pass checklist for a hire in a new state or country
  • Lawyers who want a structured starting point they will verify themselves

Skip it if

  • Relying on the output as final legal advice without attorney review, since the rules are researched at review time and may be incomplete or wrong
  • Hires where the configuration file or jurisdiction table is missing, because the skill then depends on research tools and web search that can return thin or unverified results
  • Individual job candidates trying to assess their own offers, since the skill is written for the employer's side and its configuration assumes company policies

Try asking

  • “Review this offer letter for a remote hire based in Colorado and flag any issues”
  • “Can we use a non-compete for this engineer working from Texas?”
  • “Check this offer letter for classification problems: the role is salaried but hourly in practice”
  • “Hiring in Washington state, what notices and pay-transparency rules apply to this offer?”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Hiring Offer ReviewInstall, 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.

    hiring-review.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip hiring-review.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip hiring-review.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

  • Set up the employment-legal CLAUDE.md jurisdiction table and restrictive covenant policy before the first use, so the skill applies your house rules first.
  • Check every citation tagged [web search — verify] or [model knowledge — verify] against a primary source before relying on it.
  • Give the skill the exact state or country and the role description, since classification and covenant rules depend on both.

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.