legal-glossary

legal-glossary is a skill for Claude Code from bromso/metapowers. It costs 61 tokens per session (823 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plain-language glossary of legal terms organized by area, with examples and explanations of why each term matters. It is intended for people who are not lawyers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain terms in contracts, privacy, intellectual property, employment, compliance and corporate law to a team.
Why use it?
It makes unfamiliar legal vocabulary easier to understand when reading contracts, privacy materials, intellectual-property documents or compliance guidance.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the legal plugin — 35 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to explain terms in contracts, privacy, intellectual property, employment, compliance and corporate law to a team.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bromso/metapowers/legal-glossary
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 bromso/metapowers --skill legal-glossary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bromso/metapowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install legal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 823 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.
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 $0.00061 $0.00823
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00329
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00082

Measured 3d ago against content hash fbeeb02bc5a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legal-glossary 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.

plugins/legal/skills/legal-glossary/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate a glossary of legal terms for "$ARGUMENTS". Define terms in plain language, organized by legal area, with practical examples and context for non-lawyers.

Note: AI-generated legal content does not constitute legal advice. Definitions are simplified for accessibility and may not capture every legal nuance.

Arguments. $ARGUMENTS may contain the project name and optional flags. Take the first token as <project> and treat --skip-checks as a flag; never include flags in file paths. All paths below use <project>. If --skip-checks is present, skip the prerequisite check and, before writing any artifact, append one line to .metapowers/legal/<project>/skip-log.md: - <ISO timestamp> — <skill name> skipped prerequisite check for <artifact file> — reason: <reason or "none given">.

Prerequisites

None — this is a utility skill.

Process

  1. Determine scope:

    • Parse "" to identify which legal area(s) or terms to cover
    • If a broad topic is requested, cover terms across all relevant legal areas
    • If a specific area is requested, provide deeper coverage of that area
  2. Organize terms by legal area:

    • Contract Law — offer, acceptance, consideration, breach, damages, indemnification, force majeure, assignment, waiver, severability
    • Privacy and Data Protection — personal data, data controller, data processor, consent, data subject rights, breach notification, cross-border transfer, data minimization
    • Intellectual Property — copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, licensing, fair use, infringement, prior art, work for hire
    • Employment Law — at-will employment, wrongful termination, non-compete, non-solicitation, independent contractor, misclassification, FLSA, harassment, accommodation
    • Compliance and Regulatory — due diligence, fiduciary duty, regulatory filing, audit, whistleblower, sanctions, anti-corruption, know your customer (KYC)
    • Corporate Law — incorporation, bylaws, fiduciary duty, shareholder, board resolution, articles of incorporation, operating agreement, capitalization, vesting

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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 · 54 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A fbeeb02bc5a9

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legal-glossary is a skill published in the GitHub repository bromso/metapowers (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 823 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 2026-10-21.

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