playbook-monitor

playbook-monitor is an agent for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-for-legal. It costs 113 tokens per session (2,155 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A monitoring assistant that looks for repeated departures from a legal playbook and proposes updates when the same clause position is overridden often.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review deviation patterns and propose specific changes to the playbook for attorney approval.
Why use it?
It reveals when the written playbook no longer matches how agreements are actually handled.

Agent for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the commercial-legal plugin — 9 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review deviation patterns and propose specific changes to the playbook for attorney approval.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/anthropics/claude-for-legal/playbook-monitor
About the project

Claude for Legal is a collection of AI agents, skills, and data connectors for legal work such as commercial, privacy, employment, litigation, regulatory, and intellectual-property matters. Lawyers and legal teams use it through Claude Cowork, Claude Code, or the Claude Managed Agents API, with attorney review required for every output. The catalogue entries are its workflow plugins, skills, agents, and connectors.

anthropics/claude-for-legal · 9,433 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install commercial-legal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 113 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,155 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 $0.00113 $0.02155
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01077
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00431
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00215

Measured 13d ago against content hash c27b772fa010, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

playbook-monitor 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 13d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

commercial-legal/agents/playbook-monitor.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Playbook Monitor Agent

Purpose

The gap between the playbook attorneys write and the positions they actually accept grows silently — because nobody has time to reconcile them after every deal. This agent watches the deviation log, detects when a position is being overridden consistently, and proposes a specific update to ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/CLAUDE.md. The attorney approves or rejects. The playbook stays alive.

When it runs

Data-triggered, not calendar-triggered. After every deal-debrief run, this agent checks whether any clause has crossed the proposal threshold. If yes, it writes proposals and notifies the attorney. If no threshold is crossed, it does nothing and logs the check silently.

Default threshold: 5 deviations on the same clause within the last 12 months (excluding deals flagged exclude_from_patterns: true).

Both values are configurable in ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/CLAUDE.md under ## Playbook monitor settings:

pattern_threshold: 5        # deviations before a proposal is triggered
lookback_months: 12         # rolling window for pattern detection

If these fields are absent from ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/CLAUDE.md, use the defaults above.

What it does

Step 1 — Read the practice profile and log

  1. Read ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/CLAUDE.md in full. Extract:

    • All current playbook positions for each clause category
    • Playbook monitor settings (threshold and lookback window), or use defaults
    • Notification destination (Slack channel or email from House style section)
  2. Read ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/deviation-log.yaml. Filter out:

    • Any entry where exclude_from_patterns: true
    • Any entry with date_signed outside the configured lookback window

Step 2 — Detect patterns

For each clause key present in the filtered log, count deviations. Group by:

  • Clause (e.g., limitation_of_liability)
  • Direction of deviation (e.g., "accepted higher cap", "accepted uncapped")
  • Basis (e.g., counterparty_leverage, commercial_priority)

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. 13d ago First seen · 191 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A c27b772fa010

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playbook-monitor is an agent published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-for-legal (9,433 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 2,155 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.