memo

memo is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-for-legal. It costs 69 tokens per session (2,210 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An IRAC case-analysis scaffold. IRAC means Issue, Rule, Application, and Conclusion; this tool leaves the legal rules, analysis, and conclusion for the student to research and write.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize case notes into issues, research-needed rule sections, student-analysis prompts, strengths and weaknesses, and open questions.
Why use it?
It gives a case memo a clear structure without pretending to decide the case or fill research gaps. Students can see which questions still need work.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Part of the legal-clinic plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to organize case notes into issues, research-needed rule sections, student-analysis prompts, strengths and weaknesses, and open questions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/memo
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 · 9,706 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 memo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install legal-clinic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,210 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 14 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 14 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 $0.00069 $0.02210
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00884
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00221

Measured 24d ago against content hash 85c6d7724a1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memo 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 24d 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

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • memo — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
legal-clinic/skills/memo/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/memo

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → practice areas, jurisdiction.
  2. Use the workflow below. Read intake summary / case notes.
  3. Frame issues as questions. Scaffold IRAC for each — Rule blocks are RESEARCH NEEDED, Application is STUDENT ANALYSIS prompts, Conclusion is blank.
  4. Strengths/weaknesses/open questions. Research gaps summary.
  5. Output with prominent "the analysis is yours" label.
/legal-clinic:memo

Memo: Internal Case Analysis

Purpose

The case analysis memo is where the student's thinking lives. This skill provides the IRAC scaffolding and flags the research gaps — the student fills in the analysis.

The analysis is the student's. This skill structures; it doesn't conclude.

Load context

~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → practice areas, jurisdiction, supervision style. Intake summary and case notes for facts.

Pedagogy check

Read the supervisor guide for this practice area at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/guides/<practice-area>.md. Check the pedagogy_posture setting:

  • guide (default): Produce the IRAC structure and the research-gap list. Ask the student to draft each rule statement themselves from research, rather than giving them a framework. Give feedback on what they wrote. Offer to fill the framework rule for a section only when the student has tried once.
  • assist: Produce the memo scaffold and fill what can be filled. Flag items for student review. The student edits and learns by reviewing. (Note: this memo skill always leaves the [STUDENT ANALYSIS] and [STUDENT CONCLUSION] blocks blank by design — assist means the skill produces the IRAC scaffold and framework rule statement; it does not produce the application or the conclusion.)
  • teach: Don't produce the framework or the scaffold content. Ask the student to frame the issues, state the rules from their research, and do the application. Give feedback. Ask leading questions when they're stuck. Only show a model rule statement or a model application paragraph after two attempts, and only for the section they're stuck on. Track what they got right and wrong so the supervisor can see progress.

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 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. 24d ago First seen · 211 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 85c6d7724a1c

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memo is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-for-legal (9,706 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 2,210 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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