Internal Investigation Framework
Runs a privileged internal investigation log from intake to final memo, tracking sources and gaps.
- Repository
- anthropics/claude-for-legal
- Stars
- 9,870
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Files
- 1 file
What it does
This is a reference framework for an AI assistant helping a legal team run a workplace or corporate internal investigation. Once installed, the assistant intake-checks whether the matter is attorney-directed, opens a structured investigation log, builds a checklist of sources to gather, and helps process documents, answer questions against the log, draft a memo, and produce audience summaries. It also flags legal issues such as union representation (Weingarten) and public-employer compelled statements (Garrity) before interviews begin.
Great for
- In-house or outside employment counsel who want a structured workflow for investigations
- Legal ops or HR-legal teams standardising how investigation files are organised and labelled
- Developers studying how a multi-command legal plugin shares one reference skill across commands
Skip it if
- Anyone conducting an investigation without attorney direction: the skill itself warns that its privilege labelling may be misleading in that case, and privilege analysis is a legal judgement, not something a tool can settle.
- Non-lawyers seeking legal advice on their own workplace complaint: the skill is written for counsel and is not invoked directly, so it will not answer a personal legal question on its own.
Try asking
- “Open an investigation into a harassment complaint against a regional manager”
- “Add these five interview notes and expense records to the active investigation log”
- “Query the log: which witnesses have not yet been interviewed?”
- “Draft the privileged investigation memo from the current log entries”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.
internal-investigation.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip internal-investigation.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip internal-investigation.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
- Answer the attorney-directed and union/public-employer questions at intake before any interview; the skill says not to interview until protocols are adjusted.
- Treat the privilege header as a label, not a guarantee; have the supervising attorney confirm privilege status before files are created or shared.
- Keep distribution of generated logs and memos tightly scoped, since forwarding outside the privilege circle can waive privilege over the whole investigation.
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.