subpoena-triage

subpoena-triage is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-for-legal. It costs 78 tokens per session (4,063 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for handling a subpoena, which is a legal demand for documents, information, or testimony. It classifies the demand, examines its scope and deadlines, and prepares an objections and response plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a subpoena, determine what kind it is, check burden and privilege issues, plan compliance, and create a deadline calendar.
Why use it?
Subpoenas can create strict deadlines and risks such as producing too much information or revealing legally protected material. This organises the initial response and escalation steps.

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 Use it to review a subpoena, determine what kind it is, check burden and privilege issues, plan compliance, and create a deadline calendar.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/subpoena-triage
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 subpoena-triage
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 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,063 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 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 $0.00078 $0.04063
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.01625
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00813
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00406

Measured 3d ago against content hash fee66a5dd5c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-26, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

subpoena-triage 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/subpoena-triage/SKILL.md · 279 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 279 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/subpoena-triage

  1. Read the subpoena from provided path.
  2. Classify (third-party-docs / third-party-depo / party / CID / grand-jury).
  3. If grand jury → stop, escalate per ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md. Otherwise continue.
  4. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/matters/_log.yaml for cross-check. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md → landscape, privilege conventions, escalation norms.
  5. Follow the workflow and reference below.
  6. Extract key fields, analyze scope/burden/privilege, produce objections framework + compliance plan + deadline calendar.
  7. Write ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/inbound/[slug]/triage.md. Copy or link subpoena to ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/inbound/[slug]/incoming.[ext].
  8. Hand off: /legal-hold --issue if hold not in place; /matter-intake if materiality warrants; /matter-briefing [slug] if party subpoena in existing matter.

Subpoena Triage

Purpose

Subpoenas arrive with deadlines. The failure modes: missing the deadline, over-producing (privilege waiver, burden we should have objected to), under-producing (contempt exposure), or missing a motion-to-quash window. This skill classifies, analyzes, and produces a compliance plan with objections framework.

Jurisdiction assumption

The rule cited in Step 0 is the operative one for this subpoena in this forum. Subpoena practice varies materially: federal (FRCP 45) vs. state equivalents, state-to-state variants, local rules, court-specific standing orders, and the subpoena type (trial, deposition, document production) all change objection deadlines, place-of-compliance limits, privilege-log requirements, and cost-shifting. Every rule output here is a starting-point heuristic — confirm currency and the local variant before asserting in writing.

Side context

This skill is inherently defensive — a subpoena has been served on the recipient and the posture is respond/object/comply. Read ## Side in the practice profile. If the user's default side is plaintiff, note that receiving a subpoena is common for plaintiffs too (witness subpoenas, third-party requests directed at the plaintiff's own records) but the framing here is always "subpoena served on us, how do we respond." If the user is defense (typical), the framing aligns with the default. If the matter has a different posture than the default (e.g., defense practitioner receiving a subpoena in a matter where they're pro se for a family member), prompt the user to confirm posture before proceeding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 279 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 · 279 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A fee66a5dd5c5

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subpoena-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-for-legal (9,529 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 4,063 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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