legal-research

legal-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kingselyjoe/legal-research-dsh. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,184 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured system for legal research involving laws, court decisions, academic sources, arguments, and evidence. It separates facts, legal claims, scholarly views, and the author's own analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a research question, find and verify legal sources, build an evidence chain, write papers or memoranda, and review arguments.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of fabricated citations and unsupported conclusions while making the research process and sources easier to check.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to define a research question, find and verify legal sources, build an evidence chain, write papers or memoranda, and review arguments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kingselyjoe/legal-research-dsh/legal-research
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 kingselyjoe/legal-research-dsh --skill legal-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kingselyjoe/legal-research-dsh

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,184 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 $0.00078 $0.01184
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00592
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00118

Measured 12d ago against content hash bd55584aa305, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legal-research 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/legal-research/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

把法律研究做成可复核的证据工程。模型负责研究判断,legal-research 命令负责项目状态、来源、论点、证据和审计。

开始任何工作前完整读取并遵守 references/interaction-protocol.md。它规定如何向用户解释当前步骤、处理结果和下一步;原始 JSON 只供内部读取。

不可破坏的规则

  • 不凭记忆编造法条、案号、裁判要旨、页码、DOI、引文或效力状态。
  • 事实、法律命题、学术观点和作者分析必须分开标记。
  • 引用法律结论前回到可访问的原始来源;只有摘要时明确标为二手来源。
  • 缺失内容保留 [待核验][待补:具体字段],不得猜补。
  • 法域、研究截止日期、目标体例和交付格式必须进入项目元数据。
  • 输出是研究辅助材料,不冒充律师意见、司法结论或学术原创性证明。

开始或恢复

先运行:

legal-research diagnose --json
legal-research --workspace "{workspace}" guide --json

没有项目时,根据用户已经提供的信息直接初始化;只有核心命题或法域确实无法推断时才追问:

legal-research --workspace "{workspace}" init \
  --title "{题目}" --jurisdiction "{法域}" \
  --research-type law-review --citation-style "中引法" \
  --thesis "{暂定核心命题}" --json

上面的命令在内部执行。面向用户先说明当前主阶段、这一步的目的和完成标准;执行后说明实际产出、对论文的作用和唯一的建议下一步。

当前阶段达到完成标准后,在内部运行 legal-research --workspace "{workspace}" stage {下一阶段} --json,再重新读取 guide --json。不得仅因调用过某个模块就把阶段标成完成。

研究类型仅选 legal-memolaw-reviewempiricalliterature-review

路由

用户目标 模块
法条、案例、文献和数据库检索 legal-research-sources
北大法宝等授权法律数据库的MCP、CLI和批量导入 legal-research-providers
拆论点、找反例、建立证据地图 legal-research-claims
中引法、Bluebook、OSCOLA等引注核验 legal-research-citations
论文计划、文献综述、备忘录和正文 legal-research-writing
降低模板化表达、强化作者判断和论文作者性审查 legal-research-authorship
投稿前审查、论证和方法复核 legal-research-review
裁判文书批处理、编码和实证数据 legal-research-empirical
Markdown、DOCX和交付检查 legal-research-export

当环境不能直接激活同名 Skill 时,完整读取对应目录的 SKILL.md 后执行。项目目录规范见 references/workspace.md

默认工作流

  1. 阶段 1/6 研究设定:固定问题、法域、时间边界、研究类型、核心命题和反命题。
  2. 阶段 2/6 来源检索与核验:需要授权数据库时先执行 legal-research-providers,再执行 legal-research-sources 登记并核验来源。
  3. 阶段 3/6 论点与证据链:执行 legal-research-claims 建立证据地图,再由 legal-research-citations 核验身份、定位和体例。
  4. 阶段 4/6 提纲与正文:执行 legal-research-writing,正文只使用证据台账中可追溯的材料。
  5. 阶段 5/6 作者确认与审查:依次执行 legal-research-authorshiplegal-research-review,修复阻断问题。
  6. 阶段 6/6 导出与交付:运行 legal-research audit --strict;通过后执行 legal-research-export 并人工核对。

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 12d ago First seen · 84 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A bd55584aa305

Subscribe to this mod's changes

legal-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository kingselyjoe/legal-research-dsh (2 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,184 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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