investigation-open

investigation-open is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-for-legal. It costs 46 tokens per session (249 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for opening a new confidential workplace-investigation matter. It runs initial intake, creates a checklist of information sources and starts a persistent investigation log.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up an investigation after a complaint or allegation, record the initial details and prepare the evidence-gathering process.
Why use it?
It gives a new complaint or allegation an organised workspace from the beginning and helps prevent important sources from being missed.

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 to set up an investigation after a complaint or allegation, record the initial details and prepare the evidence-gathering process.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/investigation-open
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 investigation-open
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 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 249 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 pass 7 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 $0.00046 $0.00249
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00125
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00025

Measured 13d ago against content hash 045273a59fc2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investigation-open 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

employment-legal/skills/investigation-open/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

/investigation-open

Opens a new investigation matter — runs intake, generates the sources checklist, and creates the persistent investigation log.

Instructions

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md.
  2. Load the internal-investigation reference skill and run Mode 1 (Open).
  3. If a matter with the same slug already exists, warn before overwriting.

Examples

/employment-legal:investigation-open
Harassment complaint filed against a manager in the Austin office.
/employment-legal:investigation-open
(skill will ask for details)

Detailed intake, privilege-formation requirements, sources checklist, and log templates live in the internal-investigation 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 · 37 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 045273a59fc2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

investigation-open 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 46 tokens to every session and 249 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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