What is uk-legal-plugins CLAUDE.md?

Repository instructions for a UK legal plugin marketplace. The marketplace contains plugins and skills for legal work and packages them for several tools that support MCP, a standard way for AI tools to use external services.

Use them when editing legal-plugin prompts, skills, agents, hooks, manifests, or documentation for Claude Code, Cowork, or OpenAI Codex CLI.

They explain the supported client types, file layout, documentation, and validation rules so changes fit the marketplace’s packaging model.

How uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 2,219 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,219 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.02219	$0.02219
Opus 5	$0.01110	$0.01110
Sonnet 5	$0.00444	$0.00444
Haiku 4.5	$0.00222	$0.00222

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9574de9c4ab0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

uk-legal-plugins CLAUDE.md 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 10d 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.

CLAUDE.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Guidance for working on this repo. uk-legal-plugins is a UK-jurisdiction legal plugin marketplace — 11 plugins, 140+ skills. Most work here is editing prompt content (skills, agents, hooks) or plugin metadata — not application code.

Target ecosystems

These plugins reach three MCP-speaking client ecosystems via dual-manifest packaging (.claude-plugin/plugin.json + .codex-plugin/plugin.json per plugin, sharing the same skills/ + .mcp.json):

Ecosystem	Audience	Reaches via
Claude Code	Developer + lawyer-developers	`.claude-plugin/plugin.json`
Cowork (Anthropic)	Anthropic collaborative env	Same as Claude Code
OpenAI Codex CLI	OpenAI developer audience	`.codex-plugin/plugin.json`

ChatGPT consumer (~80M/week) is NOT reachable through these plugins — ChatGPT supports MCP tools only, no skills, no resources, no prompts. ChatGPT users connect directly to uk-legal-mcp.fly.dev/mcp; for them, the MCP server's tool descriptions are the only workflow-teaching layer. See uk-legal-mcp/docs/chatgpt-workflow-encoding.md (in the sibling repo).

Documentation index

In docs/:

SPEC.md — pre-existing specification
skill-gaps-and-design.md — 5 new skills closing the dogfeed-failure workflows (find-member-contribution, find-case-by-party-verify, oscola-build-citation, statute-amendments-trace, bill-debate-trace)
distribution-strategy.md — distribution decision (Option C1: single free public repo), dual-manifest plugin pattern, future revenue paths (recorded; not implemented)

Layout

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json   # the marketplace manifest — one entry per plugin
<plugin>/                         # 11 plugins (employment-legal-uk, privacy-legal-uk, ...)
  .claude-plugin/plugin.json      # plugin manifest (name, version, description, author)
  .mcp.json                       # MCP servers the plugin connects to
  CLAUDE.md                       # practice-profile TEMPLATE (see "Plugin CLAUDE.md" below)
  README.md                       # per-plugin docs
  skills/<name>/SKILL.md          # one skill per directory
  agents/<name>.md                # subagent definitions
  hooks/hooks.json                # hook config (most plugins ship an empty stub)
  .gitignore
references/                       # shared templates read by cold-start and dashboard skills
  company-profile-template.md     # shape of ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/company-profile.md
  dashboard-template.md           # rendering standard for HTML/terminal/Excel dashboard outputs

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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.

10d ago First seen · 155 lines · 2,219 tokens per session scan A 9574de9c4ab0

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uk-legal-plugins CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,219 tokens to every session, about $0.0111 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 2026-08-31.

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