plain-language-letters

plain-language-letters is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-for-legal. It costs 47 tokens per session (191 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A deprecated skill for plain-language client letters that redirects users to /client-letter or /status client. The work was split between routine correspondence and substantive client updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use /client-letter for appointment confirmations and document requests, or /status client for substantive updates.
Why use it?
It helps users find the current command instead of using an old, broader workflow.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

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

Good fit Use /client-letter for appointment confirmations and document requests, or /status client for substantive updates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/plain-language-letters
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 plain-language-letters
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.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for plain-language-letters

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/plain-language-letters/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/plain-language-letters)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/plain-language-letters"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/plain-language-letters/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for plain-language-letters

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/plain-language-letters"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/plain-language-letters.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 191 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 $0.00047 $0.00191
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00076
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00019

Measured 24d ago against content hash 4cc6985e0c45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plain-language-letters 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:

legal-clinic/skills/plain-language-letters/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

[DEPRECATED] Plain-Language Letters → see /client-letter and /status client

This skill was split during the v2 rebuild:

  • Routine correspondence (appointment confirms, document requests, brief "we filed it" updates) → skills/client-letter/ — use /client-letter [type]

  • Substantive client status updates → skills/status/ in client-facing mode — use /status client

Both apply the plain-language standards (reading level, no jargon) from CLAUDE.md.

See the respective SKILL.md files for full workflows.

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 · 23 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 4cc6985e0c45

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plain-language-letters 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 47 tokens to every session and 191 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 2026-09-23.

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