semester-handoff

semester-handoff is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-for-legal. It costs 85 tokens per session (2,405 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A semester-end handoff workflow for law-clinic cases. It creates notes that explain each active case to the students taking it over, plus a summary for the whole incoming group.

In plain words
What is it for?
Mapping outgoing students to incoming ones and producing per-case transition memos and a cohort summary.
Why use it?
Law clinics often change student teams each semester, so important case knowledge can otherwise leave with the departing students. The handoff preserves deadlines, communications, history, and ownership information.

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 Mapping outgoing students to incoming ones and producing per-case transition memos and a cohort summary.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/semester-handoff
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 semester-handoff
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 semester-handoff

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

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/semester-handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/semester-handoff.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,405 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 12 Jun 2026
  • Snyk warn 12 Jun 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 $0.00085 $0.02405
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00962
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00241

Measured 24d ago against content hash 5ed23dd5192a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

semester-handoff 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/semester-handoff/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/semester-handoff

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → clinic profile, semester dates, supervision style.
  2. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/deadlines.yaml and ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/client-comms/[case-id]/log.md per case.
  3. Use the workflow below.
  4. Take active-case list as input (ask if clinic doesn't have a central list). Map outgoing → incoming owners.
  5. Generate per-case handoff memo → ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/handoffs/[semester]/[case_id].md.
  6. Generate cohort summary → ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/handoffs/[semester]/_summary.md.
  7. Route per supervision model — formal queue / configurable flags / lighter-touch.

Semester Handoff

Purpose

Every semester, clinics lose their entire workforce and rebuild. /ramp solves half the problem — it onboards the new cohort. This skill solves the other half: it offboards the departing cohort by producing handoff memos that capture what the next student needs to know about every active case.

Without this, case knowledge walks out the door with the student. The new student starts from the case file and intake summary, which is never enough. Two weeks are wasted re-learning the case before the new student can do anything useful. The client experiences the re-learning as a regression — calls go unanswered while the new student catches up, questions already answered get asked again.

Audience

Professor or departing students. The professor runs it to orchestrate the full cohort offboarding; individual students can run it on their own cases if they're transitioning mid-semester (graduation, withdrawal).

Load context

  • ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → clinic profile, semester, practice areas, supervision style
  • ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/deadlines.yaml → all active deadlines, grouped by case
  • ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/client-comms/[case-id]/log.md (per case) → communications history
  • Case files / intake summaries the clinic maintains
  • Student roster — who owns what going into the handoff

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 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 · 192 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 5ed23dd5192a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

semester-handoff 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 85 tokens to every session and 2,405 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

mqc-legal-courseware-master

A legal-courseware tool that combines legal charts, explanations, source text, and case notes into editable presentation pages. It uses a fixed grid and can export pages for copying into a lawyer's presentation.

MiaoQichuan/new-litigation-visualization · 414 tokens

policy-qa

Triage loop for inbound HR policy questions. Classifies each new question from the HR inbox as answerable from the documented Notion policy library or as needing HR's judgment, drafts a grounded Gmail reply for the former, and escalates the latter — anything ambiguous, legal, personal, or compensation-related — to…

kortix-ai/suna · 77 tokens

bar-prep-questions-bossmann007

Questões de preparação para o Exame de Ordem (OAB) — 1ª fase (objetiva) ou 2ª fase (peça/discursiva), com foco nas matérias fracas do aluno. Rastreia erros e volta aos padrões. Use quando o usuário disser "prova da OAB", "questões de 1ª fase", "peça prática", ou "me teste pra Ordem".

ThomasMoreAI/legal-skills-open · 97 tokens

irac-practice-bossmann007

Corrige uma peça/parecer no método IRAC (ou estrutura equivalente) quanto a estrutura, identificação de teses, precisão de fundamentação, profundidade de análise e organização. NÃO reescreve o texto nem mostra resposta-modelo; rastreia padrões entre sessões. Use quando o usuário disser "corrige meu IRAC", "avalia meu…

ThomasMoreAI/legal-skills-open · 95 tokens

common-law-simulation-negotiation

Anwalt oder Mandant will UK/US-Vertragsverhandlung oder Mandantengespraech simulieren und False-Friends-Lernkurve absolvieren. Prüfraster Verhandlungs-Simulation Issue-List-Erstellung Mandanten-Erklärung. Output Simulations-Szenario Verhandlungs-Script Lern-Feedback. Abgrenzung zu common-law-quality-gate (Qualitaet)…

ThomasMoreAI/legal-skills-open · 101 tokens

case-brief

Resume um julgado/acórdão no seu formato preferido. Em modo sabatina, faz o aluno afirmar a tese/ementa primeiro. Use quando o usuário disser "resume [julgado]", "qual a tese de", "resumo de acórdão", ou colar o inteiro teor de uma decisão.

ThomasMoreAI/legal-skills-open · 69 tokens