disputes-and-legal-holds

disputes-and-legal-holds is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 95 tokens per session (823 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for responding to a legal dispute and preserving relevant information. A legal hold is a written instruction to stop routine deletion when a dispute is reasonably expected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to issue and scope legal holds, suspend deletion across systems, preserve privileged material, and coordinate counsel and settlement decisions.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk that emails, files, or other evidence are deleted after the duty to preserve them has begun.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the legal-risk plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to issue and scope legal holds, suspend deletion across systems, preserve privileged material, and coordinate counsel and settlement decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/disputes-and-legal-holds
About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 1,356 stars · on GitHub · cbrock84.github.io

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 cbrock84/headcount --skill disputes-and-legal-holds
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install legal-risk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 95 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 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 $0.00095 $0.00823
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00411
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00082

Measured 8d ago against content hash 404eb222b961, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

disputes-and-legal-holds 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 8d 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-risk/skills/disputes-and-legal-holds/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The decisions that determine how a dispute goes are made in the first week, usually by people who do not know a dispute has started.

This structures the operational response. Procedural obligations and their deadlines vary by jurisdiction and forum — get counsel engaged early, and let them drive strategy.

Preservation attaches earlier than most people expect

The obligation to preserve begins when litigation is reasonably anticipated — which can be a demand letter, a threat made in a meeting, a regulator's inquiry, or an internal complaint serious enough that a claim is foreseeable. It does not wait for a filing.

Destruction after that point is treated far more seriously than the underlying dispute. Routine automatic deletion continuing through a hold is the common version, and "it was our normal policy" is not the defense people assume.

Issue the hold in writing, and make it reach the systems

A hold has two halves and organizations routinely do only the first.

  • Notify the people. Written, naming the matter in general terms, describing the categories of material to preserve, instructing recipients not to delete and not to discuss, and requiring acknowledgment. Identify custodians by what they touched, not by seniority.
  • Suspend the machinery. Automatic deletion runs on schedules nobody remembers setting: mail retention, chat history expiry, ticket archival, log rotation, backup rotation, CRM purges, device wipe on offboarding. Each needs an explicit suspension for the affected scope.

The systems half is where holds fail, because the notice goes out and everyone assumes it was sufficient. Keep a list of every system with an automatic deletion schedule so that the question is answerable in an afternoon rather than a fortnight.

Maintain the hold as a live thing

Re-notify periodically, add custodians as the matter develops, and cover departures — an employee leaving under a hold means their mailbox, files and device do not follow the standard offboarding path. Release the hold in writing when counsel says so, and only then.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 8d ago First seen · 77 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 404eb222b961

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disputes-and-legal-holds is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,356 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 823 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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