handbook-updates

handbook-updates is a skill for Claude Code from Buildwise-Studios/claude-for-hk-law. It costs 52 tokens per session (853 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review workflow for proposed changes to an employee handbook, the document that sets out workplace policies. It compares the proposal with the current handbook and checks for related effects, including Hong Kong law impacts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or changing policies such as annual leave, to find affected sections, cross-references, and Hong Kong compliance areas.
Why use it?
Changing one policy can make other sections, calculations, or legal references inconsistent if related effects are not checked.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the employment-legal plugin — 13 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when adding or changing policies such as annual leave, to find affected sections, cross-references, and Hong Kong compliance areas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/buildwise-studios/claude-for-hk-law/handbook-updates
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 Buildwise-Studios/claude-for-hk-law --skill handbook-updates
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Buildwise-Studios/claude-for-hk-law

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install employment-legal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 853 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 $0.00052 $0.00853
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00426
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00085

Measured 11d ago against content hash e84026ee3755, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handbook-updates 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 11d 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.

employment-legal/skills/handbook-updates/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handbook Updates

Matter context

Matter context. Check ## Matter workspaces in the practice-level CLAUDE.md. If Enabled is (the default for in-house users), skip the rest of this paragraph — skills use practice-level context and the matter machinery is invisible. If enabled and there is no active matter, ask: "Which matter is this for? Run /employment-legal:matter-workspace switch <slug> or say practice-level." Load the active matter's matter.md for matter-specific context and overrides. Write outputs to the matter folder at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-hk-law/employment-legal/matters/<matter-slug>/. Never read another matter's files unless Cross-matter context is on.


Purpose

Handbook changes have ripple effects. Change the annual leave policy and you may affect the final pay calculation, the leave policy cross-reference, and multiple HK legislation compliance areas. This skill finds the ripples before they become inconsistencies.

Load context

~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-hk-law/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md → handbook location, state supplements list, update cadence.

Workflow

Step 1: Get the change

  • What section is changing?
  • What's the new language?
  • Why? (Legal requirement, policy decision, cleanup)

Step 2: Diff against current

Read the current handbook section. Show the diff:

- [old language]
+ [new language]

Step 3: Find cross-references

Search the handbook for references to the changed section:

  • Other policies that cite this one ("see the PTO policy for accrual rates")
  • Defined terms that this section uses or defines
  • State supplements that modify this section

Each cross-reference: does it still make sense after the change? Flag any that break.

Step 4: State supplement impact

For each HK legislative requirement in ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-hk-law/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md:

  • Does the statutory requirement modify the section being changed?
  • Does the change make the existing policy non-compliant?
  • Does the change require updating other sections of the handbook or statutory particulars per Cap 57 s.42C?

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. 11d ago First seen · 108 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A e84026ee3755

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handbook-updates is a skill published in the GitHub repository Buildwise-Studios/claude-for-hk-law (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 853 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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