federal-court-rules

federal-court-rules is a skill for Claude Code from DocketDrafter/docketdrafter-plugins. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,940 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A reference tool for federal court procedure and evidence rules, plus selected local court and electronic-filing rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Looking up, quoting, summarizing, citing, and analyzing the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Appellate Procedure, Evidence, supplemental rules, and selected local rules.
Why use it?
It provides bundled, locally searchable rule text for legal research and citation checking.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the federal-court-rules plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Looking up, quoting, summarizing, citing, and analyzing the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Appellate Procedure, Evidence, supplemental rules, and selected local rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/docketdrafter/docketdrafter-plugins/federal-court-rules
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 DocketDrafter/docketdrafter-plugins --skill federal-court-rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DocketDrafter/docketdrafter-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install federal-court-rules, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,940 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 $0.00081 $0.01940
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00970
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00194

Measured 8d ago against content hash 93201e0912e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

federal-court-rules 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/corpus.py, scripts/read_rule.py), 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.

plugins/federal-court-rules/skills/federal-court-rules/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Federal Court Rules

The reader scripts automatically install the latest verified corpus on first use. After installation, lookups are local and the corpus is not checked for updates in that environment.

Use this skill when a task requires bundled federal rule text, selected federal district local rules, ECF rules, citation checking, rule lookup, or analysis grounded in the local corpus.

Corpus Layout

All shipped data lives under references/.

  • references/index.json is the master rule-set inventory. Use it, or scripts/read_rule.py --list-rule-sets, to discover supported courts and rule counts.
  • references/aliases.json is the top-level alias map for core federal rules. Each rule-set directory may also have its own aliases.json.
  • Each rule set is stored as references/<rule-set>/index.json, rules.json, rules.html, and usually aliases.json.
  • Rule-set indexes include citation metadata such as ruleSet, ruleId, title, citation, division, path, anchor, status, source path, source URL, public URL, source pages, and text length where available.

Do not treat SKILL.md as the authoritative list of supported districts. The authoritative list is generated data in references/index.json.

Coverage and currency

The corpus includes FRCP, FRAP, FRE, the Supplemental Admiralty Rules, the Supplemental Rules for Social Security Actions, and selected federal district local and ECF rules. It is intentionally useful rather than comprehensive. It does not include the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, Supreme Court Rules, circuit local rules, every federal district, every appendix or filing manual, standing or general orders, or judge-specific individual practices.

Each rule-set index records its own effective-through date and official source URL where available. Dates vary by court. Always identify the relevant rule set and its bundled effective date, and verify the live court website before relying on a rule for a filing, deadline, formatting requirement, or other time-sensitive procedural decision.

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 8d ago First seen · 140 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 93201e0912e0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

federal-court-rules is a skill published in the GitHub repository DocketDrafter/docketdrafter-plugins (9 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,940 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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