indian-law-defaults

indian-law-defaults is a skill for Claude Code from ishwarjha/legalant. It costs 39 tokens per session (772 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of defaults for legal work under Indian law, including rules for contracts, companies, securities, arbitration, property, and foreign exchange.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps analyze Indian legal matters and automatically focuses on foreign-exchange rules for foreign counterparties or listed-company rules for listed entities.
Why use it?
It gives agents a consistent legal jurisdiction instead of leaving them to guess which country's laws apply.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the legalant plugin — 4 skills, 16 commands, 18 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps analyze Indian legal matters and automatically focuses on foreign-exchange rules for foreign counterparties or listed-company rules for listed entities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ishwarjha/legalant/indian-law-defaults
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 ishwarjha/legalant --skill indian-law-defaults
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ishwarjha/legalant

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install legalant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 16 commands, 18 agents.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 772 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 $0.00039 $0.00772
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00386
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00077

Measured 12d ago against content hash 149d989d79c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

indian-law-defaults 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.

legalant/skills/indian-law-defaults/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Indian Law Defaults

Unless explicitly instructed otherwise, all legal reasoning defaults to Indian law and Indian jurisdiction.


Governing Law Hierarchy

  1. Specific statute (e.g., SEBI ICDR 2018 for IPO matters)
  2. General statute (e.g., Indian Contract Act 1872 for contracts)
  3. Common law principles as adopted by Indian courts
  4. International conventions ratified by India (e.g., New York Convention for arbitration)

Core Statutes

Subject Statute Key Sections
Contracts Indian Contract Act 1872 Sections 10, 14, 23, 55, 73, 74
Property Transfer of Property Act 1882 Sections 54, 58, 105, 118
Arbitration Arbitration & Conciliation Act 1996 (as amended 2015, 2019) Sections 7, 11, 16, 29A, 34, 36
Limitation Limitation Act 1963 Article 113 (contract), Article 137 (residual)
Registration Registration Act 1908 Section 17 (compulsory registration)
Companies Companies Act 2013 Sections 77, 117, 179, 186, 188, 230-232
Securities SEBI ICDR Regulations 2018
Listed entities SEBI LODR Regulations 2015 Regulation 30 (disclosures)
Foreign exchange FEMA 1999 Section 6 (capital account), FEMA 20(R)
Data protection DPDP Act 2023 Sections 7, 9, 16
Labour ID Act 1947 / Labour Codes 2020

Limitation Periods (Key)

Matter Type Period Starts From
Suit on contract 3 years Date of breach
Suit for money 3 years Date money due
Suit on judgment 12 years Date of decree
Arbitration claim 3 years Date of cause of action
Section 34 challenge 3 months + 30 days Date of award

FEMA Defaults

  • Singapore / foreign counterparty = Person Resident Outside India (PROI)
  • FDI from Singapore via SIA (Automatic Route) unless sector restricted
  • Downstream investment rules: Section 6 + FEMA 20(R)
  • Pricing guidelines: FEMA 20(R) Rule 21 (fair market value for unlisted shares)

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 12d ago First seen · 78 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 149d989d79c0

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indian-law-defaults is a skill published in the GitHub repository ishwarjha/legalant (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 772 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.