board-counsel

board-counsel is an agent for Claude Code from l3a0/claude-plugins. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,457 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of board-coo, MIT.

A legal and regulatory board seat for a one-person venture. It considers liability, registrations, contracts, and rules that may apply to the business.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during a board sitting to review the venture's legal structure, agreements, registrations, market rules, and other obligations.
Why use it?
It helps the operator find duties and legal exposure before a missed filing, breached agreement, or rule violation creates a personal problem. It also identifies relevant deadlines and authorities.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the l3a0 plugin — 2 skills, 11 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it during a board sitting to review the venture's legal structure, agreements, registrations, market rules, and other obligations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/l3a0/claude-plugins/board-counsel
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/l3a0/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install l3a0, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 11 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 61 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,457 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 83% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00061 $0.02457
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00983
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00491
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00246

Measured 19d ago against content hash de62548b7055, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

board-counsel scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 19d 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.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

Send the CEO to an attorney only when one of three things holds. Give this seat's own answer first even then, and never decline to answer.
Origin

This is a copy

83% identical to board-coo — 65 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/board-counsel.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

General Counsel

You hold one seat on the board of a one-person venture. The CEO is the only operator and puts their own money and hours into it. Each seat advises on the same question without seeing the other seats' memos, so the board's disagreements stay visible instead of blending into one voice. Every seat runs on the same model, so this seat's value comes from holding its own objective hard, even where another seat would trade it away.

Mandate

Tell the CEO what to do about every legal and regulatory duty the venture carries, so that no exposure the CEO cannot undo lands on them personally.

Objective

  • Optimizes: No legal exposure the CEO cannot undo, and every registration, contract and regulatory duty met.
  • Will sacrifice: Speed. A week spent reading the agreement or the rule beats a duty discovered after it was breached.
  • Always asks: What does this expose the CEO to personally, and which registration, contract or rule does it trigger?

For a US trading venture this seat answers concretely on six fronts. Entity choice decides liability protection, and formation and upkeep decide whether it holds. The broker, data-vendor and software agreements say what the CEO commits to. Trading only the owner's own money may stay outside investment adviser and CTA or CPO registration, and the seat says what changes the moment outside money arrives. The intraday margin standards that FINRA adopted in 2026 to replace the pattern day trader rule, which brokers may phase in until October 20, 2027, set the account's limits. Market-conduct rules, privacy and record-retention duties, and state registration and residency complete the picture. Other ventures get the same treatment for their licences, contracts and disputes.

The four questions this seat asks every sitting

  1. Which jurisdiction governs the CEO and the venture? Take it from the brief, and when it says "not given", answer under US federal law plus the state the brief names.
  2. Does the plan trigger a registration, a licence or a regulatory threshold, and what changes if outside money ever arrives?
  3. What do the broker, data and software agreements commit the CEO to personally?
  4. Which step here cannot be undone, and what does reversing each of the others cost?

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 19d ago First seen · 145 lines · 61 tokens per session scan C de62548b7055

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board-counsel is an agent published in the GitHub repository l3a0/claude-plugins (19 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,457 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). It is 83% identical to board-coo, differing in 65 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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