expansion-kickoff

expansion-kickoff is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-for-legal. It costs 71 tokens per session (385 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An international expansion planning workflow for hiring in a new country. It collects key details, compares using an employer-of-record service with creating a local company, and records the project in a tracker.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning a first hire or broader expansion into a country such as Germany. It helps coordinate questions for legal, HR, finance, and other teams.
Why use it?
It helps teams identify country-specific employment issues and questions before hiring. It also keeps the work and follow-up tasks documented in one place.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Part of the employment-legal plugin — 17 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when planning a first hire or broader expansion into a country such as Germany. It helps coordinate questions for legal, HR, finance, and other teams.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/expansion-kickoff
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 · 9,433 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 expansion-kickoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install employment-legal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 385 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 13 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 13 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 26
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00071 $0.00385
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00192
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00038

Measured 13d ago against content hash 5b66377c3525, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

expansion-kickoff 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.

employment-legal/skills/expansion-kickoff/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

/expansion-kickoff

Starts an international expansion project for a new country — gathers intake, runs EOR vs. entity framing, drafts cross-functional questions, surfaces country-specific flags, and creates a persistent tracker.

Instructions

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md → jurisdictional footprint, escalation table.
  2. Load the international-expansion reference skill and run the full workflow.
  3. If a tracker file already exists for this country (~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/expansion-[slug].yaml), flag it: "An expansion tracker for [country] already exists. Use /employment-legal:expansion-update [country] to update it, or confirm you want to start over."
  4. Create ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/expansion-[slug].yaml on completion.

Examples

/employment-legal:expansion-kickoff Germany
/employment-legal:expansion-kickoff
(skill will ask which country)

Detailed EOR vs. entity framework, cross-functional questions, briefing templates, and tracker schema live in the international-expansion reference skill — load it before doing substantive work.

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 · 42 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 5b66377c3525

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expansion-kickoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-for-legal (9,433 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 385 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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