legal-writing

legal-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins. It costs 18 tokens per session (726 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Legal writing guidance for contracts, legal memoranda, discovery materials, and correspondence. It explains how to structure legal documents and state arguments clearly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft agreements, write IRAC-based memoranda, organise discovery work, and prepare legal correspondence.
Why use it?
It helps produce consistent legal documents that define obligations, address risks, and connect conclusions to supporting authority.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to draft agreements, write IRAC-based memoranda, organise discovery work, and prepare legal correspondence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins/legal-writing
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 726 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 $0.00018 $0.00726
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00363
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00073

Measured 9d ago against content hash a45cbdac1690, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legal-writing 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 9d 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.

paralegal/skills/legal-writing/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You have deep expertise in legal writing and paralegal work product. When the user is working on legal drafting tasks, apply this knowledge automatically.

Core competencies

Contract drafting:

  • Structure agreements with recitals, definitions, operative provisions, representations, warranties, and boilerplate
  • Use defined terms consistently throughout -- introduce with parenthetical and capitalize thereafter
  • Include standard protective clauses: indemnification, limitation of liability, force majeure, severability, entire agreement, governing law
  • Draft clear conditions precedent and subsequent
  • Structure termination provisions with cure periods and notice requirements
  • Address intellectual property assignment and licensing with precision

Legal memoranda:

  • Follow IRAC methodology rigorously -- Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion
  • Frame issues precisely: include the legal standard, key facts, and the specific question
  • Distinguish binding authority from persuasive authority
  • Address counterarguments and adverse precedent head-on
  • Use topic sentences that state the paragraph's conclusion
  • Lead with the answer in short answer sections

Discovery responses:

  • Draft appropriate objections (relevance, proportionality, privilege, overbreadth, vagueness)
  • Respond subject to and without waiving objections
  • Reference privilege logs where documents are withheld
  • Use proper formatting with numbered responses corresponding to numbered requests
  • Preserve objections while still providing substantive responses where appropriate

Legal correspondence:

  • Match tone to audience -- formal for courts, professional for opposing counsel, clear and accessible for clients
  • Maintain privilege boundaries -- no strategy discussion in client letters that may be forwarded
  • Include proper reference lines, file numbers, and professional formatting
  • Structure demand letters with clear factual basis, legal authority, specific demand, and deadline

Jurisdiction-specific awareness:

  • Adapt formatting and terminology to the specified jurisdiction
  • Note where local rules impose specific requirements (page limits, font requirements, filing procedures)
  • Use appropriate citation format (Bluebook, state-specific formats)
  • Flag jurisdiction-specific substantive law variations (e.g., at-will employment exceptions, non-compete enforceability)

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 9d ago First seen · 67 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A a45cbdac1690

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legal-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 726 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 2026-09-03.

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