legal-harness-init

legal-harness-init is a skill for Codex from cat-xierluo/legal-skills. It costs 128 tokens per session (4,630 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A setup and governance tool for AI instructions used by legal workers, including AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md files. It distinguishes user, project, and team instructions and establishes a basic legal-safety baseline.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when configuring AI-agent rules for legal work, checking the current AI setup, merging governed instructions, or verifying permissions and confidentiality in a new session.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unclear or conflicting AI instructions from weakening confidentiality, permissions, handling of missing information, or review of past actions. It also supports safely updating managed instruction sections.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when configuring AI-agent rules for legal work, checking the current AI setup, merging governed instructions, or verifying permissions and confidentiality in a new session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cat-xierluo/legal-skills/legal-harness-init
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 cat-xierluo/legal-skills --skill legal-harness-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cat-xierluo/legal-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,630 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 unknown 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 $0.00128 $0.04630
Opus 5.5 $0.00051 $0.01852
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00926
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00463

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1d227d784630, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legal-harness-init 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 13 executable files (scripts/check-baseline.py, scripts/detect.sh, scripts/lib_platforms.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/legal-harness-init/SKILL.md · 290 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

60 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago Changed · +7 lines · -7 tokens per session 1d227d784630
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 283 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A adec4df33b97

Subscribe to this mod's changes

legal-harness-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository cat-xierluo/legal-skills (778 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 4,630 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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