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.
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.
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill handbook-updatesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legalWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/handbook-updates)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/handbook-updates"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/handbook-updates/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/handbook-updates"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/handbook-updates.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
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 14 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.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00052 | $0.00845 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00338 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00169 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00085 |
Grade A, and why
handbook-updates 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Handbook Updates
Matter context
Matter context. Check ## Matter workspaces in the practice-level CLAUDE.md. If Enabled is ✗ (the default for in-house users), skip the rest of this paragraph — skills use practice-level context and the matter machinery is invisible. If enabled and there is no active matter, ask: "Which matter is this for? Run /employment-legal:matter-workspace switch <slug> or say practice-level." Load the active matter's matter.md for matter-specific context and overrides. Write outputs to the matter folder at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/matters/<matter-slug>/. Never read another matter's files unless Cross-matter context is on.
Purpose
Handbook changes have ripple effects. Change the PTO policy and you've affected the final pay calculation, the leave policy cross-reference, and three state supplements. This skill finds the ripples before they become inconsistencies.
Load context
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md → handbook location, state supplements list, update cadence.
Workflow
Step 1: Get the change
- What section is changing?
- What's the new language?
- Why? (Legal requirement, policy decision, cleanup)
Step 2: Diff against current
Read the current handbook section. Show the diff:
- [old language]
+ [new language]
Step 3: Find cross-references
Search the handbook for references to the changed section:
- Other policies that cite this one ("see the PTO policy for accrual rates")
- Defined terms that this section uses or defines
- State supplements that modify this section
Each cross-reference: does it still make sense after the change? Flag any that break.
Step 4: State supplement impact
For each state supplement in ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md:
- Does this supplement modify the section being changed?
- Does the change make the supplement obsolete, wrong, or incomplete?
- Does the change create a need for a new supplement in a state that didn't need one before?
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 108 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 9aba9e41ebd9
handbook-updates is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-for-legal (9,796 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 845 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.
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