anthropics/claude-for-legal

anthropics/claude-for-legal

Description: A suite of plugins for legal workflows

Language: Python

License: Apache-2.0

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Created: 2026-04-21T15:43:42Z

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README:

Claude for Legal

Reference agents, skills, and data connectors for the legal workflows we see most — in-house commercial, privacy, product, corporate, employment, litigation, regulatory, AI governance, IP, and the learning side of the practice (law school clinics and students).

> New here? Start with [QUICKSTART.md](QUICKSTART.md) — install in 60 seconds. This README is the full reference.

Everything here is available two ways from one source: install it as a Claude Cowork or Claude Code plugin, or deploy it through the Claude Managed Agents API behind your own workflow engine. Same system prompt, same skills — you choose where it runs.

Getting started in Cowork

• Install Claude Desktop
• Get access to Claude Cowork
• Follow the instructions in the video below:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/51394f0a-5277-4fe2-b81c-5c5e9ac876b5

> [!IMPORTANT] > Every output from these plugins is a draft for attorney review — not legal advice, not a legal conclusion, not a substitute for a lawyer. They are built with guardrails that reflect that: source attribution on every citation, conservative defaults on privilege and subjective legal calls, jurisdiction assumptions surfaced, and explicit gates before anything is filed, sent, or relied on. A lawyer reviews, verifies, and takes professional responsibility for anything that leaves the building. These plugins make that review faster; they do not replace it. > > These plugins do not represent Anthropic's legal positions. They are tools that help lawyers analyze issues. Where a skill includes a checklist item, a suggested framework, a risk flag, or a characterization of case law or regulatory guidance, that is an aid to the reviewing attorney's own analysis, not a statement of Anthropic's view of the law. The law in many of these areas is unsettled and evolving. The attorney using the plugin — not the plugin, and not Anthropic — is responsible for the legal positions taken in their work product.

What's in the repo:

• Practice-area plugins covering in-house, firm, and academic legal work — each one built around a cold-start interview that learns your playbook and a CLAUDE.md practice profile that every skill reads from.
• Managed-agent cookbooks for the scheduled, eyes-on-the-feed workflows (renewal watcher, docket watcher, regulatory feed monitor, diligence grid, launch radar).
• MCP connectors across general productivity (Slack, Google Drive, Box) and legal-specific systems (Ironclad, DocuSign, iManage, Everlaw, CourtListener, and more).
• [Named agents](#agents) — end-to-end workflow agents (Vendor Agreement Reviewer, DSAR Responder, Termination Reviewer, Claim Chart Builder, …) with job-style names and a single command to run each one.

Agents

Each agent is named for the workflow it runs. They're the most common surface — start with the ones that match your work, then tune the underlying skill, the practice profile, and the connectors to how your team does it.

| Agent | What it does | Plugin | Command | |---|---|---|---| | Vendor Agreement Reviewer | Reviews a vendor MSA against your playbook and produces a redline memo | commercial-legal | /commercial-legal:review | | NDA Triager | GREEN/YELLOW/RED triage of inbound NDAs so only the hard ones hit a lawyer's desk | commercial-legal | /commercial-legal:review | | Amendment Tracer | Traces how a contract has changed across its base agreement and every amendment | commercial-legal | /commercial-legal:amendment-history | | Renewal Watcher | Scans the contract register for cancel-by and renewal deadlines | commercial-legal | scheduled agent | | Deal Debrief | Weekly sweep of signed agreements with playbook deviations — prompts the attorney to log context while memory is fresh | commercial-legal | scheduled agent | | Playbook Monitor | Watches the deviation log and proposes playbook updates when a clause has drifted | commercial-legal | scheduled agent | | Escalation Router | Routes contract issues to the right approver and drafts the ask | commercial-legal | /commercial-legal:escalation-flagger | | Tabular Diligence Review | Tabular review over a data room with one row per document and every cell cited | corporate-legal | /corporate-legal:tabular-review | | Issue Extractor | Reads VDR documents and extracts issues per house categories and materiality thresholds | corporate-legal | /corporate-legal:diligence-issue-extraction | | Board Consent Drafter | Drafts unanimous written consents in house format with precedent search | corporate-legal | /corporate-legal:written-consent | | Material Contracts Schedule Builder | Builds the disclosure schedule from diligence findings against the purchase-agreement threshold | corporate-legal | /corporate-legal:material-contract-schedule | | Entity Compliance Tracker | Computes filing deadlines across jurisdictions and entity types, runs health audits | corporate-legal | /corporate-legal:entity-compliance | | Closing Checklist Driver | Tracks every condition, consent, document, and filing blocking close | corporate-legal | /corporate-legal:closing-checklist | | Integration Runbook | Phased post-closing integration plan with consent tracking and weekly status | corporate-legal | /corporate-legal:integration-management | | Data Room Watcher | Monitors the VDR for new uploads and posts closing checklist status on schedule | corporate-legal | scheduled agent | | Termination Reviewer | Runs a proposed termination against jurisdiction-specific risk flags | employment-legal | /employment-legal:termination-review | | Hire Reviewer | Reviews offer letters and restrictive covenants with a jurisdiction check | employment-legal | /employment-legal:hiring-review | | Worker Classification Screener | Tests a proposed engagement against the controlling state test | employment-legal | /employment-legal:worker-classification | | Leave Tracker |…