Claude for Legal Skills - Setup Guide¶
Source: anthropics/claude-for-legal GitHub: anthropics/claude-for-legal Skills: 118 skills · 54.4K total installs Category: Legal Operations First Seen: May 13, 2026 (catalogued August 18, 2026 sweep) Quality Tier: 🟢 Production - Gen Agent Trust Hub Pass, Socket Pass, and Snyk Pass on the flagship legal-writing skill; official Anthropic publisher; 9.2K GitHub stars
Claude for Legal is Anthropic's official skill suite for legal workflows. It covers the full matter lifecycle: intake, drafting, review (NDA, MSA, DPA, vendor agreements, IP clauses), regulatory research, compliance tracking, and client communication. The flagship legal-writing skill encodes a strict no-rewriting rule for law-student feedback (structural critique only, with labeled example phrasings), and the suite ships with its own skill-manager and skill-installer for governing the pack inside Claude environments.
Installation¶
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal
Individual skills install with the explicit repo form:
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill legal-writing
Prerequisites¶
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
| Node.js + npx | For the skill installer |
| Claude environment | Skills reference ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ for per-user state (student profiles, feedback trackers, matter workspaces) |
| Matter data | Local files or client-provided documents; the suite does not ship cloud connectors |
What It Provides¶
| Skill Group | Examples | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Core drafting | legal-writing, draft, memo, client-letter, plain-language-letters | Lawyer-facing drafting with strict no-rewrite feedback rules |
| Contract review | saas-msa-review, nda-review, dpa-review, vendor-agreement-review, ip-clause-review, termination-review | Structured agreement review with issue extraction |
| Matter management | matter-intake, matter-briefing, matter-workspace, matter-update, matter-close, deadlines, closing-checklist | Full matter lifecycle tracking |
| Regulatory | reg-gap-analysis, reg-feed-watcher, entity-compliance, dsar-response, pia-generation, aia-generation | Compliance gap analysis and privacy assessments |
| Litigation support | claim-chart, case-brief, chronology, demand-draft, cease-desist, subpoena-triage, deposition-prep | Litigation and dispute workflow |
| Suite governance | skill-manager, skill-installer, skills-qa, customize, disable, uninstall | The pack governs itself inside the agent |
Top skills by installs: legal-writing (962), draft (669), flashcards (574), saas-msa-review (549), policy-monitor (538).
Quick Start¶
- Install:
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal - Ask the agent to review a contract: the nda-review, saas-msa-review, or dpa-review skills structure the analysis
- For tracking work, use matter-intake to open a matter and matter-close to file it
CorpusIQ Use Cases¶
| Use Case | How |
|---|---|
| Business operator contract review | NDA and MSA review skills give operators structured red-flag analysis without counsel on retainer |
| Privacy compliance | dsar-response and pia-generation map to GDPR/CCPA workflows business operators routinely face |
| Multi-connector diligence | diligence-issue-extraction and material-contract-schedule pair well with CorpusIQ document connectors |
| Agent governance reference | The suite's skill-manager pattern is a working model for self-governing skill packs |
Integration with CorpusIQ¶
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This page is part of the CorpusIQ directory, the reference we maintain for the MCP server and agent-skill ecosystem. Run alongside CorpusIQ, a third-party server like this one can be combined with a company's own business data in a single answer.
Limitations / Verification¶
- Security audits on the legal-writing flagship: Gen Agent Trust Hub Pass, Socket Pass, Snyk Pass
- Publisher-page total verified (54.4K across 118 skills); 9.2K GitHub stars as of the sweep
- Official Anthropic publisher; skills assume a Claude-style plugin directory layout (
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/) - Legal guidance is not legal advice - outputs should be reviewed by qualified counsel for binding matters
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal # verify install works
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