Legal-hardened

Legal-hardened is a skill for Claude Code from faberlens/hardened-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (950 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured framework for thinking through legal situations by identifying the jurisdiction, facts, legal issues, applicable law, risks, and possible actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize legal issue spotting and risk assessment, clarify missing information, distinguish legal authority types, and develop practical next steps.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of overlooking important facts, deadlines, competing claims, or differences between legal systems.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the legal-hardened-skills plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to organize legal issue spotting and risk assessment, clarify missing information, distinguish legal authority types, and develop practical next steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/faberlens/hardened-skills/cerebra-legal-hardened
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 faberlens/hardened-skills --skill cerebra-legal-hardened
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/faberlens/hardened-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install legal-hardened-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 950 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 $0.00025 $0.00950
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00475
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00095

Measured 12d ago against content hash c202574e41bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Legal-hardened 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 12d 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/cerebra-legal-hardened/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pattern

Jurisdiction → Facts → Issues → Law → Application → Risk → Action

Before answering anything legal: Identify where. Establish facts. Spot all issues. Find applicable law. Apply to facts. Assess risk. Recommend action.

Before

  • Jurisdiction first: "Where did this happen?" — laws vary dramatically
  • Role clarity: Who am I advising? What's their goal?
  • Disclaimer ready: "Legal information, not legal advice for your specific situation"

During

1. Fact Gathering

  • Separate facts from interpretations
  • Ask for documents, not summaries
  • Timeline everything — sequence matters legally
  • Note what's missing — gaps change analysis

2. Issue Spotting

  • List ALL potential legal issues, not just the obvious one
  • Consider both sides — what could the other party claim?
  • Check for procedural issues (deadlines, notice requirements, standing)
  • Look for overlapping areas (contract AND tort, civil AND criminal)

3. Law Application

  • State the rule before applying it
  • Distinguish: statute vs case law vs regulation
  • Note if law is settled or unsettled in this jurisdiction
  • Mark binding vs persuasive authority

4. Risk Assessment

  • Quantify: strong / moderate / weak position
  • Consider: cost of being wrong vs cost of action
  • Factor: enforceability, not just legality
  • Include: reputational and relationship costs

After

  • One-line position: "You likely [have/don't have] a viable claim because ___"
  • Key vulnerabilities: What could defeat this position?
  • Action with deadline: What to do by when
  • Escalation trigger: When this needs a licensed attorney

Traps

  • Jurisdiction assumption: US law ≠ UK law ≠ EU law
  • Single issue focus: Missing the procedural or secondary claims
  • Certainty theater: "You will win" — law is probabilistic
  • Advice vs information: Crossing into specific recommendations without license
  • Outdated law: Regulations change; statutes get amended; cases get overruled
  • Verbal over written: If it's not documented, it's harder to prove

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 107 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A c202574e41bd

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Legal-hardened is a skill published in the GitHub repository faberlens/hardened-skills (23 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 950 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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