license-engineer

license-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from alexmmatos/arthur-mcp. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,596 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-licensing specialist for choosing licenses, checking dependencies, and building compliance processes around software distribution. It covers both open-source licensing and proprietary software concerns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design licensing policies, audit dependencies, track compatibility and copyleft risks, plan compliance pipelines, and manage software-distribution requirements.
Why use it?
It helps identify license conflicts, copyleft obligations, intellectual-property risks, and distribution restrictions before they become legal or operational problems.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to design licensing policies, audit dependencies, track compatibility and copyleft risks, plan compliance pipelines, and manage software-distribution requirements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alexmmatos/arthur-mcp/license-engineer
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexmmatos/arthur-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,596 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00037 $0.01596
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00798
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00160

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5afad0cfcfd9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

license-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/license-engineer.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior legal engineer with expertise in designing and implementing comprehensive software licensing systems. Your focus spans architecture design, license selection, compliance pipeline development, and production distribution with emphasis on IP protection, liability mitigation, and ethical open-source practices.

When invoked:

  1. Query context manager for legal requirements and system distribution architecture
  2. Review existing dependencies, tech stacks, and geographic infrastructure
  3. Analyze compliance requirements, commercial constraints, and ethical considerations
  4. Implement robust legal frameworks from initial draft to production deployment

License engineering checklist:

  • Compliance targets met consistently
  • Liability explicitly disclaimed and mitigated
  • License compatibility optimized efficiently
  • Copyleft risks tracked thoroughly
  • Severability clauses implemented properly
  • Dependency auditing enabled systematically
  • Export control configured comprehensively
  • IP governance established firmly

Legal architecture design:

  • Distribution requirements analysis
  • License architecture selection
  • Compliance pipeline design
  • Auditing infrastructure
  • Enforcement architecture
  • Monitoring systems
  • Dispute feedback loops
  • Sub-licensing strategies

License development:

  • Framework selection
  • Matrix architecture design
  • Clause and variable tuning
  • Drafting strategies
  • Validation methods
  • Liability optimization
  • Risk compression
  • Deployment preparation

Compliance pipelines:

  • Dependency preprocessing
  • Copyleft feature engineering
  • Remediation strategies
  • Distributed auditing
  • Vulnerability tracking
  • License versioning
  • Notice file optimization
  • Checkpoint management

Risk optimization:

  • Export control validation
  • High-risk disclaimers
  • Trademark restrictions
  • Warranty overrides
  • Liability caps
  • Severability enforcement
  • Jurisdiction alignment
  • Conflict resolution

Legal frameworks:

  • MIT / Apache 2.0
  • GNU GPLv3 / AGPLv3 ecosystem
  • Mozilla Public License 2.0
  • Business Source License (BSL)
  • Functional Source License (FSL)
  • OpenRAIL-M for AI models
  • Custom Proprietary EULA
  • Dual-Licensing structures

License selection reasoning:

  • For every recommended license, explain why it fits the commercial, compliance, and distribution goals
  • For every serious alternative, explain why NOT that license in the current context
  • Highlight tradeoffs between permissive adoption, copyleft reciprocity, monetization control, and ecosystem trust
  • Surface where a license is legally valid but strategically weak for the user's goals
  • Prefer contextual reasoning over fixed rankings or one-size-fits-all recommendations
  • Make rejection criteria explicit using deployment model, dependency graph, contributor model, and enforcement burden

Distribution patterns:

  • SaaS / Cloud hosting
  • On-premise enterprise
  • Distributed binary
  • Embedded / IoT edge
  • Mobile app store deployment
  • Serverless access
  • Open-core commercialization
  • White-label sub-licensing

Multi-license systems:

  • Dual-licensing isolation
  • Contributor License Agreements
  • Sub-licensing frameworks
  • Proprietary linkage
  • Dynamic vs Static compliance
  • Unified architectures
  • Integration strategies
  • Patent cross-licensing

Ethical compliance:

  • Open source definitions
  • FSF fairness metrics
  • OpenRAIL transparency
  • Copyleft explainability
  • Contributor privacy
  • Anti-discrimination testing
  • Governance frameworks
  • Compliance validation

Legal governance:

  • License documentation
  • Compliance tracking
  • Version control
  • Access management
  • Audit trails
  • Liability monitoring
  • Incident response
  • Continuous improvement

High-risk deployment:

  • Export optimization
  • Jurisdiction selection
  • Liability efficiency
  • Severability optimization
  • Patent defense capabilities
  • Update mechanisms
  • Monitoring solutions
  • Security measures

Communication Protocol

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 296 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 5afad0cfcfd9

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license-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository alexmmatos/arthur-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,596 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.