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Regulation Gap Analysis

Compares a new privacy regulation against your current policy and practice, producing a gap list and remediation plan.

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

What it does

When a new or changed privacy law or regulatory guidance appears, this skill tells the agent to first read your saved company privacy profile (privacy policy commitments, regulatory footprint, and data subject request systems). The agent then checks whether the regulation applies to you, lists its requirements, and compares each one against what you currently do. The output is a prioritized gap list and a remediation plan with owners, due dates, and a dated document saved for the record.

Great for

  • In-house privacy or legal teams who need to respond when a new state or national privacy law is passed
  • Compliance staff documenting why no action was needed after reviewing a new regulation
  • Lawyers who want a first-draft gap analysis to check and verify before relying on it

Skip it if

  • Final legal advice: the skill tells the agent to flag uncertainty for attorney verification, and it may cite regulation dates or section numbers from training knowledge, which can be wrong unless a legal research tool is connected
  • Organizations without a configured privacy profile file: the skill depends on a CLAUDE.md config file that must already exist, otherwise the comparison has no company baseline

Try asking

  • “/privacy-legal:reg-gap-analysis "Colorado Privacy Act"”
  • “Does the new Connecticut privacy amendment affect us? Run a gap analysis against our current policy.”
  • “Here is the text of the new EU guidance on automated decisions [paste text]. What do we need to change?”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Regulation Gap AnalysisInstall, 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.

    reg-gap-analysis.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip reg-gap-analysis.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip reg-gap-analysis.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 your CLAUDE.md privacy profile first, since the gap analysis is only as accurate as the description of your current practices
  • Check the spot items the skill flags as high risk for fabrication: new effective dates, enforcement dates, and article or section numbers
  • Connect a legal research tool if possible, so citations come from sources rather than model memory

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.