hearing-watcher

hearing-watcher is an agent for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,472 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A scheduled legal-work agent that checks court listings and court-service records for active UK litigation matters.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor court records, flag changes, calculate candidate deadlines under the Civil Procedure Rules, and produce hearing and deadline reports.
Why use it?
It helps teams notice new filings and hearings, identify possible procedural deadlines, and compare them with each matter's history and outstanding work.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the litigation-legal-uk plugin — 16 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to monitor court records, flag changes, calculate candidate deadlines under the Civil Procedure Rules, and produce hearing and deadline reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/hearing-watcher
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/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install litigation-legal-uk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 88 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,472 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 $0.00088 $0.01472
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00736
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00147

Measured 5d ago against content hash 303582b015bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hearing-watcher 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 5d 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.

litigation-legal-uk/agents/hearing-watcher.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hearing Watcher Agent

Purpose

The court list moves whether or not you're watching it. New filings, orders, and listing entries land while you're working on something else, and every one of them can start a CPR clock. This agent checks every active matter's court record on a schedule, flags what's new, computes candidate CPR deadlines from the filing types, and cross-references against the matter's history and open deliverables.

It does not replace a docketing system and it does not replace the solicitor who reads the CPR rule. It surfaces leads so neither gets surprised.

Schedule

Per ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/CLAUDE.md → Landscape → Frequent fora and the per-matter cadence in ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/matters/_log.yaml.

  • Default: weekly sweep of every matter in _log.yaml with status not in closed.
  • Daily: matters with an upcoming hearing inside 14 days, matters in trial or late disclosure, or any matter flagged risk: critical.

The schedule is the floor, not the ceiling. Significant orders land on Friday afternoons.

What it does

  1. Read ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/CLAUDE.md for house style, escalation rules, and the frequent-fora list. Read ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/matters/_log.yaml for the active portfolio — per-matter id, jurisdiction, court reference number, last-checked timestamp, and open deliverables.
  2. For each active matter with a court reference number, query the uk-legal MCP for new case law entries or TNA Find Case Law listings; use govuk MCP to cross-reference courts and tribunals service listings where available. Capture filing date, event type, title, filer (where ascertainable), and any linked documents.
  3. Map event types to candidate CPR deadline rules. CPR deadlines (including response times, disclosure deadlines, witness statement exchange dates, and appeal windows) are set by the applicable CPR Part, any Practice Direction, and case management directions in the specific proceedings. Standing orders and case management directions override default CPR rules; flag every computed deadline as a lead requiring human verification against the court's actual directions.
  4. Cross-reference against each matter's history.md and open deliverables. Surface posture changes (application decided, case management conference listed, disclosure cutoff ordered, trial date moved) and deliverables that slipped past their internal deadline.
  5. Write ./logs/hearing-report-<date>.md with per-matter sections and a machine-readable ./logs/deadlines.yaml the docketing system can ingest. Update each matter's history.md with a dated entry noting what was pulled. Post a summary to Slack per the escalation channel in CLAUDE.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 5d ago First seen · 84 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 303582b015bf

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hearing-watcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,472 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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