client-comms-log

client-comms-log is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-for-legal. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,484 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An append-only record of communications with a legal client, including calls, emails, texts, letters, meetings, and voicemails. Each entry includes the date, channel, summary, direction, and follow-up actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add, read, or summarize a case's communication history, identify communication patterns, and notice when a message creates a deadline.
Why use it?
It preserves a shared history for supervision, liability records, and handoffs between students. It also helps reveal unanswered messages and missed follow-ups.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the legal-clinic plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to add, read, or summarize a case's communication history, identify communication patterns, and notice when a message creates a deadline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/client-comms-log
About the project

Claude for Legal is a collection of AI agents, skills, and data connectors for legal work such as commercial, privacy, employment, litigation, regulatory, and intellectual-property matters. Lawyers and legal teams use it through Claude Cowork, Claude Code, or the Claude Managed Agents API, with attorney review required for every output. The catalogue entries are its workflow plugins, skills, agents, and connectors.

anthropics/claude-for-legal · 9,706 stars · on GitHub

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 anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill client-comms-log
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install legal-clinic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,484 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 14 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 14 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00078 $0.01484
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00594
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00148

Measured 24d ago against content hash 6da1c6f9af1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

client-comms-log 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 24d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

legal-clinic/skills/client-comms-log/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/client-comms-log

  1. Use the workflow below.
  2. Require case-id (prompt if not provided).
  3. Route by flag:
    • --add (default): capture direction, medium, student, summary, action items, follow-up due. Confirm with user. Append (prepend most-recent-first) to ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/client-comms/[case-id]/log.md.
    • --read: show the most recent N entries.
    • --summary: one-paragraph condensed read.
    • --patterns: scan for unanswered comms, missed follow-ups, language gaps, tone shifts, contact gaps. Supervision-oriented.
  4. Integration: offer /legal-clinic:deadlines --add if the log establishes a deadline; route to /legal-clinic:semester-handoff via --summary when relevant.

Client Communications Log

Purpose

Four reasons to keep this log:

  1. Malpractice defense. If a client claims "no one ever told me [X]," a dated entry showing otherwise is the answer. Clinical professors carry professional liability on student work; contemporaneous records protect them.
  2. Continuity at handoff. The next semester's student takes over and reads the log; they don't re-ask the client questions already answered.
  3. Supervision visibility. Five unreturned voicemails over six weeks is a pattern. The log makes patterns visible that individual students might not flag on their own.
  4. File retention. Law school clinics have obligations to maintain complete client files. Communication history is part of that.

Light. Append-only. The student's job is to write a two-sentence entry after every contact; the skill formats it and appends.

Load context

  • ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/client-comms/[case-id]/log.md (if exists) — append target
  • ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → not heavily read; this skill is case-scoped

Modes

Flag: --add | --read | --summary | --patterns (default: add)

--add (default) — log a new entry

Inputs:

  • Case ID (required — which case)
  • Date + time (default: now)
  • Direction: in (client → clinic) | out (clinic → client)
  • Medium: call | email | text | letter | in-person | video | voicemail-left | voicemail-received
  • Who (student): name
  • Who (client side): client name, or "third-party: [description]" if from opposing counsel, family member, etc.
  • Duration / length (e.g., "10 min call", "3-paragraph email", "45 min in-person meeting")
  • Summary: 2-4 sentences. What happened, what was substantive.
  • Action items:
    • What the student owes the client (with deadline)
    • What the client owes the student (with expected timing)
  • Follow-up due: date if applicable
  • Notes: anything that matters but doesn't fit above — language used, emotional tone, family dynamic observed

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 24d ago First seen · 117 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 6da1c6f9af1f

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client-comms-log is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-for-legal (9,706 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,484 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-23.

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