matter-intake

matter-intake is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-for-legal. It costs 81 tokens per session (3,327 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided intake process for opening a new legal matter. It collects consistent information about the issue, conflicts, risk, people responsible, legal holds, outside counsel, and important dates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating the matter record, starting its history, and adding a structured entry to the legal portfolio.
Why use it?
It prevents important setup details from being missed and makes matters easier to compare and manage later.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Part of the litigation-legal plugin — 16 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Creating the matter record, starting its history, and adding a structured entry to the legal portfolio.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/matter-intake
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 · 9,529 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 matter-intake
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install litigation-legal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,327 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 17 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 17 Aug 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 $0.00081 $0.03327
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.01331
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00665
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00333

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2c22915af32c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-26, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

matter-intake 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 3d 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.

litigation-legal/skills/matter-intake/SKILL.md · 311 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 311 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/matter-intake

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md → risk calibration (for triage), landscape (for context, conflicts method), stakeholders (for who to loop in).
  2. Follow the workflow and reference below.
  3. Run the uniform intake: identification, conflicts check, source, risk triage, materiality, outside counsel, internal owners, legal hold, key dates, initial posture.
  4. Generate slug from matter name (lowercase, hyphens, year).
  5. Create ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/matters/[slug]/matter.md — full narrative intake.
  6. Create ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/matters/[slug]/history.md — seeded with the intake as the first entry.
  7. Append structured row to ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/matters/_log.yaml.
  8. Confirm with the user: "Here's the row I'll write — any edits?"

Matter Intake

Purpose

Every new matter goes through the same intake so the portfolio stays comparable. Uniform rows in _log.yaml let the status skill roll up. Narrative in matter.md captures what the row can't. History file seeded here becomes the event record.

Load context

  • ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md — risk calibration (triage thresholds, materiality, settlement ladder), landscape (stakeholders, outside counsel bench).
  • ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/matters/_log.yaml — to confirm slug uniqueness.

The intake

1. Identification

  • Matter name (as commonly referenced, e.g., "Acme v. Us 2026")
  • Counterparty
  • Matter type: contract | employment | ip | regulatory | investigation | product | other
  • Our role: plaintiff | defendant | claimant | respondent | investigated
    • If the practice profile's ## Side is plaintiff, defense, or a "both — default X" variant, pre-fill the role from that default and confirm. If ## Side is varies by matter, ask cold. Never silently assume a posture the practice profile hasn't set.
    • The role drives downstream skills: plaintiff-posture matters route risk triage to case value / contingency economics; defense-posture matters route to exposure / reserves / insurance tender.
  • Jurisdiction (court, arbitration forum, or regulatory body)

Read the full file on GitHub · 311 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. 3d ago First seen · 311 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 2c22915af32c

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matter-intake is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-for-legal (9,529 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 3,327 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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