cold-start-interview

cold-start-interview is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-for-legal. It costs 98 tokens per session (10,541 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided interview for setting up an AI governance file for a legal practice. AI governance means the rules and review process an organization uses for AI tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or refresh the practice's AI governance instructions, migrate an existing configuration, or check connected integrations.
Why use it?
It gathers information from policies, impact assessments, vendor agreements, and tool lists instead of leaving the governance file with placeholders or missing context.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the ai-governance-legal plugin — 10 skills, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or refresh the practice's AI governance instructions, migrate an existing configuration, or check connected integrations.

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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 · 9,415 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-for-legal
Claude Code
/plugin install ai-governance-legal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-governance-legal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,541 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 16 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 16 May 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 $0.00098 $0.10541
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.05271
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.02108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.01054

Measured 12d ago against content hash f77b33220d17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-start-interview 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 12d 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

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

ai-governance-legal/skills/cold-start-interview/SKILL.md · 689 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 689 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/cold-start-interview

  1. Check ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md — if populated and no --redo, confirm before overwriting.
  2. Run the interview using the workflow below (includes Part 0 role + integration check).
  3. Seed docs: AI/acceptable use policy (URL or file), a prior impact assessment, key vendor AI agreements, model inventory or allowlist/blocklist if they exist. Read all provided.
  4. Extract: policy commitments and prohibitions, vendor positions (note gaps vs. stated), impact assessment structure, approved/prohibited tool lists.
  5. Migration: if a populated CLAUDE.md (no [PLACEHOLDER] markers) exists at ~/.claude/plugins/cache/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/*/CLAUDE.md but not at the config path, copy it to the config path and tell the user what was migrated.
  6. Write ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md (create parent directories as needed). Show summary. Offer first task.

Flags

  • --redo — re-run the full interview and overwrite ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md.
  • --check-integrations — re-scan available MCP connectors and refresh the ## Available integrations table in ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md without re-running the full interview. Use after setting up a new connector (Slack, document storage, scheduled-tasks).

When probing: only report ✓ if an MCP tool call actually succeeded. Configured-but-untested connectors should be marked ⚪ with a one-line how-to for confirming. Never report ✓ based on .mcp.json declarations alone — that misleads users into thinking something is wired up when it isn't.

/ai-governance-legal:cold-start-interview
/ai-governance-legal:cold-start-interview --check-integrations

Purpose

Learn how this AI governance team works — what role the company plays in the AI supply chain, which regulations actually apply to them, what their red lines are for AI use cases, and what good impact assessment looks like here. Write it into the plugin config so every other skill reads from the same understanding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 689 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. 12d ago First seen · 689 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A f77b33220d17

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cold-start-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-for-legal (9,415 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 10,541 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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