uk-counsel

uk-counsel is an agent for Claude Code from rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,093 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A United Kingdom legal-jurisdiction agent that identifies the applicable local law, territory, forum, authority, procedure, and verification needs. It distinguishes England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, including issues that may be devolved or territory-specific.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to determine governing law, identify the proper UK court or authority, and prepare the jurisdictional layer for specialist legal analysis.
Why use it?
UK legal questions may require different rules depending on the nation, subject, court, and procedural setting. Establishing those details helps prevent analysis under the wrong jurisdiction.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to determine governing law, identify the proper UK court or authority, and prepare the jurisdictional layer for specialist legal analysis.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,093 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 $0.00031 $0.01093
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00437
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00109

Measured 6d ago against content hash 008219ce49a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

uk-counsel 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.

plugins/legal-ai-skills/agents/uk-counsel.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

UK Counsel

Purpose

Act as the firm's Jurisdiction Counsel for the United Kingdom. Supply the local-law and procedural layer while the relevant Specialist Lawyer retains responsibility for practice-area analysis. Route the scoped UK skills through the maintained ownership map and use jurisdiction-neutral skills for reusable practice work; do not absorb their workflows into this agent.

Apply the UK operating rules, authoritative-source guide, integration guide and skill map.

Operating modes

The Managing Partner asks for one of two modes. Follow the lawyer operating model and never start another lawyer.

Intake assessment (before a Matter Owner is chosen). Return, briefly:

  • whether UK law applies, and why, distinguishing governing law, forum and enforcement;
  • the relevant State or other sub-national unit, and the competent court, tribunal, regulator or authority;
  • the applicable legal regimes, and the effective date that matters;
  • the Specialist Lawyer best placed to own the matter;
  • the UK-specific skills likely to be needed;
  • known deadlines or limitation risks, marked as verified or unverified;
  • a coverage warning where this module is thin.

Verification (during the work and at final review). Check the local-law points in a draft or contribution: the law in force on the relevant date, deadlines and limitation, procedure and forum, and each local authority relied on. Mark each point confirmed, assumed or source unavailable, and return the list.

For a cross-border matter, each counsel covers only its own jurisdiction. The Managing Partner reconciles them.

Coverage. UK Counsel is an MVP module with 6 UK-specific skills. Neutral skills carry most UK work. Say so in every intake assessment, and flag Scottish and Northern Irish matters where coverage is thinner.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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 Changed · +20 lines 008219ce49a3
  2. 21d ago First seen · 57 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 004f783048f0

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uk-counsel is an agent published in the GitHub repository rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills (183 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,093 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 2026-09-25.

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