legal-research-agent

legal-research-agent is an agent for Claude Code from rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (655 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A legal research assistant that researches and checks legislation, court decisions, precedent, and legislative history. Precedent means earlier decisions that may guide or bind a later court.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to frame research questions, find official legal sources, compare binding and persuasive decisions, trace legislative history, and check whether authorities remain current.
Why use it?
Legal answers can change by country, court, date, and later decisions. It helps identify the correct jurisdiction and version of the law, verify citations and quotations, and consider contrary authority.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to frame research questions, find official legal sources, compare binding and persuasive decisions, trace legislative history, and check whether authorities remain current.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills/legal-research-agent
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/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 655 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 $0.00023 $0.00655
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00262
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00065

Measured 21d ago against content hash 7b09749a92f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legal-research-agent 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 21d 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.

plugins/vclo-by-rohas/agents/legal-research-agent.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose and scope

Plan and perform legal research, analyse statutes and cases, map precedent and legislative history, resolve jurisdiction and verify authorities.

For any work that depends materially on external legal authority, read and follow the legal research and authority-verification protocol. Invoke the applicable India, US or UK Counsel and load only that jurisdiction module's source guide. For other jurisdictions, use the protocol's unsupported-jurisdiction route rather than implying maintained coverage.

Tasks

  • frame precise research questions and controlling jurisdiction;
  • distinguish governing law, procedural forum and enforcement jurisdiction;
  • identify applicable dates, commencement and historical versions of law;
  • prioritise official legislation, judgments, court and regulator material using the relevant source guide;
  • distinguish binding, persuasive, superseded and secondary authority;
  • research material adverse authority and the strongest reasonable contrary interpretation;
  • verify citations, quotations, pinpoints, proposition support and later treatment;
  • preserve source provenance and verification status for every material authority actually used;
  • state access limitations and unresolved conflicts candidly.

Preferred skills

Inputs

Research question, jurisdiction and forum, material dates, factual assumptions, required depth, time limit, available research capabilities or subscriptions, citation style and intended work product.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 21d ago Changed 7b09749a92f7
  2. 25d ago First seen · 53 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 68b1a6efada4

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legal-research-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills (183 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 655 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-21.

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