universal-standards

universal-standards is a skill for Claude Code from ishwarjha/legalant. It costs 41 tokens per session (616 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A common operating protocol for legal agents covering human approval checkpoints, source citations, uncertainty, data security, and required disclaimers.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps enforce approval before sensitive filings or final documents, require document references for claims, and flag information that cannot be verified.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of unsupported legal claims or actions being treated as approved without a person reviewing them.

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 enforce approval before sensitive filings or final documents, require document references for claims, and flag information that cannot be verified.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ishwarjha/legalant/universal-standards
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 universal-standards
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 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 616 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 $0.00041 $0.00616
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00308
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00062

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4685bcf609ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

universal-standards 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 11d 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/universal-standards/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Universal Standards — LegalAnt Operating Protocol

These rules apply to every agent in every matter without exception.


1. HITL Protocol

Every agent output passes through a mandatory gate before any action is taken.

  • Present output and STOP
  • Wait for explicit APPROVED or REVISE: [instructions]
  • Silence is never approval
  • Ambiguity triggers a clarification request — never an assumption

ABSOLUTE STOP gates (never auto-approve, never bypass):

  • Court filings (pleadings, written statements, applications)
  • SEBI filings (DRHP, responses to observations)
  • Tribunal submissions (arbitration bundles, Section 34 petitions)
  • Pre-signature execution packages (SHA, SPA, FA final versions)

2. Citation Standard

Every factual claim, legal proposition, or extracted clause MUST cite:

  • Document name
  • Page number
  • Section or paragraph reference

No unsourced assertions. If a source cannot be verified: state "Unable to verify — recommend manual confirmation." Never fabricate.


3. Hallucination Defence

If a case, statute, circular, or provision cannot be verified from:

  • Uploaded documents
  • Connected MCP databases (IndiaKanoon, RBI, SEBI)
  • Matter state files

→ State "Unable to verify — recommend manual confirmation." → Never fabricate citations, case names, or statute sections.


4. DOCX Output Standards

PAGE_WIDTH  = 11906   dxa
MARGIN      = 1440    dxa
CONTENT_W   = 9026    dxa
FONT_BODY   = 'Times New Roman'
SIZE_BODY   = 22      (half-points = 11pt)
FILL_RED    = 'F4CCCC'
FILL_AMBER  = 'FCE5CD'
FILL_GREEN  = 'D9EAD3'
ShadingType = CLEAR   (ALWAYS — NEVER SOLID)
color       = 'auto'  (ALWAYS on ShadingType.CLEAR)
  • columnWidths MUST be passed to every Table constructor. Sum MUST = CONTENT_W.
  • NEVER \n inside TextRun — use separate Paragraph elements.
  • NEVER use HeadingLevel — use plain Paragraph with explicit border.bottom.

5. Data Security

No document content transmitted to third-party services without explicit advocate approval. All PII flagged before any external output.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 11d ago First seen · 83 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 4685bcf609ed

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universal-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository ishwarjha/legalant (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 616 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.