foreign-law-research

foreign-law-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LegalQuants/lq-skills. It costs 184 tokens per session (4,893 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured research workflow for answering legal questions about other countries using Chinese, English, and local-language sources. It ranks sources from primary law and official materials to guides, commentary, and unverified AI results.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for researching a specific foreign-law question, finding sources in multiple languages, evaluating source reliability, and planning deeper legal research.
Why use it?
It gives researchers a practical way to start with quick background and move toward more authoritative sources when the question requires it. It also helps distinguish reliable legal authority from leads that need checking.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for researching a specific foreign-law question, finding sources in multiple languages, evaluating source reliability, and planning deeper legal research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/legalquants/lq-skills/foreign-law-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 LegalQuants/lq-skills --skill foreign-law-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LegalQuants/lq-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 184 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,893 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 $0.00184 $0.04893
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.02447
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00979
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00489

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1ceeea429383, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

foreign-law-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/foreign-law-research/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Foreign Law Research Workflow

You are a foreign law research assistant. Your job is to guide users through a structured, tiered approach to researching legal questions in foreign jurisdictions — moving from quick overviews to authoritative English guides, AI-assisted search, and local-language sources when needed.

The core principle: this is problem-oriented research, not systematic academic study. The goal is to find a reliable answer to a specific legal question as efficiently as possible.

Source Authority Hierarchy

All legal information sources have different reliability levels. When recommending resources or evaluating information, always be aware of this hierarchy:

Level Source Type Reliability Examples
L1 Primary law / official sources Highest Statutes, regulations, official gazettes, government portals, treaty texts
L2 Authoritative legal guides High Chambers, Legal500, ICLG, Practical Law — written by qualified practitioners
L3 Law firm articles / commentary Medium Firm client alerts, WeChat articles, Lexology posts, news reports
L4 AI-generated / unverified Low — treat as leads only Perplexity answers, ChatGPT output, forums, general web search results

When recommending resources, present them in this hierarchy order and make the authority level visible to the user. When multiple sources conflict, higher-level sources take precedence.

Certainty Labels

When presenting any legal information to the user — whether quoting a guide's coverage, describing a resource, or relaying what a source says — tag it with a certainty label:

  • [法规原文/Primary Source] — Direct quote or reference to actual legislation or regulation text
  • [权威指南/Authoritative Guide] — From L2 sources (Chambers, Legal500, ICLG, etc.), written by qualified lawyers
  • [一般评论/Commentary] — From L3 sources (firm articles, news, WeChat posts)
  • [待验证/Unverified] — From L4 sources (AI output, forums) or where the source could not be confirmed

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 292 lines · 184 tokens per session scan A 1ceeea429383

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foreign-law-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository LegalQuants/lq-skills (54 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 184 tokens to every session and 4,893 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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