cold-start-interview

cold-start-interview is a skill for Claude Code from lawchat-oss/taiwan-legal-plugin. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,237 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A one-time setup interview for recording legal research preferences for a Taiwan-law plugin. It stores preferred courts, divisions, date ranges, citation style, treatment of abolished regulations, and recurring subjects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Configuring default court levels, legal divisions, research dates, citation formatting, abolished-regulation handling, and standing research topics.
Why use it?
It prevents researchers from repeating the same preferences whenever they search judgments or statutes, while making clear that it does not provide legal interpretation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the taiwan-legal plugin — 3 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Configuring default court levels, legal divisions, research dates, citation formatting, abolished-regulation handling, and standing research topics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lawchat-oss/taiwan-legal-plugin/cold-start-interview
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 lawchat-oss/taiwan-legal-plugin --skill cold-start-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lawchat-oss/taiwan-legal-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install taiwan-legal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,237 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 $0.00092 $0.01237
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00619
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00124

Measured 11d ago against content hash d50e555c9f5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-start-interview 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.

taiwan-legal/skills/cold-start-interview/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Captures the user's research defaults and writes them to a practice profile.

Audience

The same audience as judgment-search and statute-lookup — Taiwan-legal researchers, attorneys, paralegals, law students. This is configuration only; no legal interpretation occurs here.

Output file

Writes ~/.claude/plugins/config/taiwan-legal-plugin/taiwan-legal/CLAUDE.md with this structure:

# taiwan-legal practice profile

## Judgment search defaults
- court_levels: [<list>]
- divisions: [<list>]
- default_date_window: <string>

## Statute lookup defaults
- exclude_abolished: <true | false>

## Citation style
- style: <string>

## Standing scope
- subjects: <free text>

Instructions

Ask the user the following, one at a time. After collecting answers, write the profile file. If the file already exists, ask whether to merge or replace before overwriting.

  1. Court levels — Which Taiwan court levels do you most often research?

    • Common picks: 最高法院 / 高等法院 / 地方法院 / 行政法院 / 智慧財產及商業法院
    • Default if skipped: 最高法院、高等法院、地方法院
  2. Divisions — Civil (民事), criminal (刑事), administrative (行政) — which do you focus on?

    • Default if skipped: all three
  3. Date window — Default search range when the user does not specify? (e.g., "last 5 years", "last 10 years", "no default")

    • Default if skipped: last 5 years
  4. Citation style — How should the plugin cite cases and statutes in summaries?

    • Options: 完整版 (字號 + 法院 + 日期 + URL) / 簡潔版 (字號 + 條號) / Bluebook-style with Taiwan adaptations
    • Default if skipped: 完整版
  5. Abolished regulations — When searching regulations, exclude abolished ones by default?

    • Default if skipped: true
  6. Standing scope — Any standing subject focus that should be remembered for every query? (Optional; leave blank for none.)

Worked example

Input (user runs the skill):

/taiwan-legal:cold-start-interview

Interaction:

Q1: Which Taiwan court levels do you most often research? (default: 最高法院、高等法院、地方法院) User: 最高法院、智慧財產及商業法院 Q2: Civil / criminal / administrative — which? (default: all three) User: 民事、行政 Q3: Default date window? (default: last 5 years) User: last 10 years Q4: Citation style? (default: 完整版) User: Q5: Exclude abolished regulations by default? (default: true) User: Q6: Standing subject focus? (optional) User: 智慧財產

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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 · 131 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A d50e555c9f5c

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cold-start-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository lawchat-oss/taiwan-legal-plugin (44 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,237 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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