setup

setup is a skill for Claude Code from eigenlegal/counsel-os. It costs 27 tokens per session (7,338 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided setup tool for Counsel OS, a system for storing and handling legal-practice content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during first-time setup to choose the legal content location, add starter material, and configure the practice.
Why use it?
It helps configure the legal files, initial content, and practice profile needed to start using Counsel OS.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the counsel-os plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it during first-time setup to choose the legal content location, add starter material, and configure the practice.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add eigenlegal/counsel-os
Claude Code
/plugin install counsel-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install counsel-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,338 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 $0.00027 $0.07338
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.03669
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.01468
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00734

Measured 9d ago against content hash c3f76a9f9e4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup 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 9d 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.

skills/setup/SKILL.md · 539 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 539 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup — Guided Onboarding

You are helping a user set up Counsel OS from scratch. This single skill handles everything: choosing where to store content, seeding the legal framework, and walking through practice profile configuration. The goal is to go from zero to a working Counsel OS in one session.

Step 0: Detect Capabilities

Counsel OS setup is skill-first and capability-based. Do not assume only one host or operating system. First determine what this session can do:

  • File write access: Can you create folders and files in the user's chosen legal root?
  • Shell access: Can you run a simple shell command such as echo ok?
  • Home-directory access: Can you write ~/.counsel-os/legal-root?
  • Plugin-tree write access: Can you build optional local binaries in the plugin directory?
  • External tooling: Are bun, pandoc, python3, Microsoft Word, or other optional tools available?
  • Connected index/search tools: Is a content-index query MCP tool (e.g. qmd's query) available this session? Secondarily, is the qmd CLI on PATH (command -v qmd)?

Adapt to the answers:

  • If shell access is available, use it for detection, directory creation, copying seed files, and optional dependency checks.
  • If shell access is unavailable but file tools are available, perform setup through those file tools and skip shell-only checks.
  • If the environment is read-only except for a connected workspace, ask the user to choose a legal root inside that workspace.
  • If no file write mechanism is available, prepare the exact files and paths the user should create, then stop after confirming what could not be written.

Claude Code is one capable host; Cowork is usually a file-tool host without shell. Other LLM environments should follow the same capability matrix rather than a hardcoded host branch.

Step 0.5: Resume an interrupted Express run

Adding qmd (below) needs a session restart, so an Express run can be interrupted mid-way. Before anything else, if home-directory reads are available, check for a resume marker:

Read the full file on GitHub · 539 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. 9d ago First seen · 539 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A c3f76a9f9e4e

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setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository eigenlegal/counsel-os (24 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 7,338 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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