skills-qa

skills-qa is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-for-legal. It costs 109 tokens per session (7,365 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A review command for assessing whether a skill is well designed and safe to use. It examines the skill's structure, dependencies, trust risks, and possible legal failure modes, then gives one of three verdicts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a skill directory, SKILL.md file, or pasted skill text before trusting it, or to assess an existing skill.
Why use it?
Community skills can contain unsafe instructions or fit poorly with a team's work. This review provides a structured check before installation or deployment.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Part of the legal-builder-hub plugin — 8 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a skill directory, SKILL.md file, or pasted skill text before trusting it, or to assess an existing skill.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/skills-qa
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 · 9,810 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 skills-qa
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install legal-builder-hub, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 agent.

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 skills-qa

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

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/skills-qa"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/skills-qa.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,365 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 warn 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 $0.00109 $0.07365
Opus 5.5 $0.00044 $0.02946
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.01473
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00737

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c80efc19e9cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

skills-qa scanned grade B with 2 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 1mo 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.

Instruction-override phrasingmediumPrompt injection

Text telling the model to disregard its earlier instructions or safety rules is the shape of a prompt injection, whoever wrote it.

1. **Override / ignore instructions** — "ignore previous instructions",

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

8. **Shell / code execution** — any instruction to run shell commands, curl
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • skills-qa — 94% identical, 36 lines differ
legal-builder-hub/skills/skills-qa/SKILL.md · 700 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 700 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/skills-qa

Inputs accepted

  • File path to a skill directory (preferred — enables full dependency mapping)
  • File path to a SKILL.md only
  • SKILL.md content pasted directly into the conversation

Context to load

  • ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-builder-hub/CLAUDE.md → practice profile and installed skills list (provides context for evaluating whether the skill fits the user's team and workflow, and whether it duplicates something already installed)

Notes

This QA check runs automatically as part of /legal-builder-hub:skill-installer. You can also run it directly on any skill before deciding whether to install, or on a first-party skill before deploying to your team. Run it deliberately — before incorporating any community skill you did not build, or before deploying a first-party skill to your team.

If the user runs /legal-builder-hub:skill-installer and then asks "should I trust this?" or "is this well-designed?", route to this skill rather than answering inline.


Purpose

Anyone can build a skill. This one checks whether it was built well before it touches your workflows.

Evaluates any skill against the Legal Skill Design Framework: thirteen design parameters (the first nine are substantive design; the tenth is Trust Surface — the skill's execution permissions and injection risk; the eleventh is Freshness — whether bundled reference content is current; the twelfth is Schema — whether the SKILL.md has the structure a well-built skill needs; the thirteenth is Conflicts — whether the skill overlaps or conflicts with skills already installed), three legal-specific failure modes, a dependency map, and a clear verdict. Works for community skills from registries and first-party skills your team is building or deploying.

Inputs accepted

  • A path to a full skill directory
  • A path to a SKILL.md file
  • SKILL.md content pasted directly into the conversation

If only SKILL.md is provided, ask once: "Do you have the associated commands, agents, or hooks for this skill? The full picture changes what I can assess — particularly on dependencies and automatic triggers." Proceed either way; flag in the output if dependency mapping is incomplete.

Read the full file on GitHub · 700 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. 1mo ago First seen · 700 lines · 109 tokens per session scan B c80efc19e9cd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skills-qa is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-for-legal (9,810 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 7,365 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (instruction-override phrasing, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-23.

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