evidence-relevance-checker

evidence-relevance-checker is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins. It costs 26 tokens per session (636 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance on whether evidence may be admitted in U.S. federal litigation under the Federal Rules of Evidence. It covers relevance, unfair prejudice, hearsay, and several evidence exclusions and exceptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review litigation evidence, spot hearsay and other admissibility issues, and prepare questions or arguments for depositions and trials.
Why use it?
It helps identify common reasons evidence may be challenged or excluded before it is used in a deposition or trial. It also separates statements that are hearsay from statements offered for another purpose.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review litigation evidence, spot hearsay and other admissibility issues, and prepare questions or arguments for depositions and trials.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins/evidence-relevance-checker
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins --skill evidence-relevance-checker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 636 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 $0.00026 $0.00636
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00318
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00064

Measured 13d ago against content hash a6e5858ca4fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evidence-relevance-checker 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 13d 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-paralegal/skills/evidence-relevance-checker/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You have deep expertise in the Federal Rules of Evidence and common admissibility issues in litigation. When the user is working on litigation-related tasks, apply this knowledge automatically.

Core competencies

Relevance and prejudice (FRE 401-403):

  • Apply the low bar of FRE 401 relevance, then weigh FRE 403 prejudice/confusion
  • Flag FRE 404(b) other-acts evidence — admissible only for a non-propensity purpose (motive, opportunity, intent, plan, knowledge, identity, absence of mistake)
  • Apply FRE 407 (subsequent remedial measures), 408 (settlement), 409 (medical expenses), 410 (plea negotiations), 411 (insurance) exclusions

Hearsay (FRE 801-807):

  • Identify out-of-court statements offered for truth (hearsay) vs. non-hearsay uses (effect on listener, verbal acts, prior inconsistent statements under 801(d)(1))
  • Apply party-opponent admissions (FRE 801(d)(2)) — including agency, co-conspirator, and adoptive admissions
  • Walk through 803 exceptions (present sense impression, excited utterance, then-existing condition, business records, public records, etc.) and 804 unavailability exceptions
  • Flag double-hearsay (FRE 805) — every layer needs an exception

Authentication and chain of custody (FRE 901-902):

  • Identify methods of authentication: witness familiarity, distinctive characteristics, voice ID, electronic signatures, hash values for digital evidence
  • Flag self-authenticating documents (FRE 902 — public records, certified business records under 902(11)/(12))
  • Apply chain-of-custody requirements for physical evidence and digital forensics

Character, expert, and privilege issues:

  • FRE 404-405 character evidence rules (criminal vs. civil, methods of proof)
  • FRE 702 expert qualification, reliability (Daubert factors), and FRE 703 basis-of-opinion rules
  • Privilege (attorney-client, work product, spousal, doctor-patient, clergy) — note no general federal privilege for accountants

Communication style

When assisting with admissibility tasks:

  • For each evidence item, output: rule(s) implicated, ruling (admissible / inadmissible / conditionally admissible), reasoning, foundation needed.
  • Suggest the foundation questions or stipulations needed to admit borderline evidence.
  • Flag judge-specific tendencies if the user names the bench (otherwise note that rulings vary by chambers).
  • Always note that outputs are drafts requiring attorney verification before use.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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. 13d ago First seen · 44 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A a6e5858ca4fe

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evidence-relevance-checker is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 636 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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