compare-across-jurisdictions

Compare across jurisdictions

Answer one question for a litigator or in-house lawyer: on this specific legal point, what does each named jurisdiction say, and where do they diverge? Produce a neutral comparative research memo for counsel review. Never recommend a forum, predict an outcome, choose governing law, or assert that doctrines are equivalent.

Use one of two modes, both on a single frozen framework:

• Requirements comparison — statutory or regulatory entitlements, thresholds, notice, eligibility, filing duties, penalties.
• Litigation treatment — source of law, controlling authority, test, burden and standard of proof, procedure, evidence, remedies, limitation.

When NOT to Use

• Testing a document against legal or regulatory standards — use identify-regulatory-gaps. If the user asks how the law differs and a document is merely attached, run this skill and state that the document was not tested.
• Comparing contract wording across agreements — use compare-key-terms.
• Deriving positions from precedent — use create-playbook.
• A single-jurisdiction question or a reasoned advice memo — use legal-reasoning or draft-legal-memo.
• Drafting or redlining — use edit-contract.
• General non-legal research — use Cowork's built-in in-depth web research.
• Recommending a forum or governing law, or predicting an outcome — declined outright and recorded under Not answered.

Hand-off rule. If a request, or part of one, matches an item above that names another skill, do not do that part here — even when the documents are already open and the work looks quick. Name the skill that handles it (for example, "That part is a job for identify-regulatory-gaps") and stop that part; finish only what belongs to this skill. If the named skill is not installed, say so plainly and do not attempt it here.

Step 1: Delivery default

Deliver the complete cited comparison In chat unless the user explicitly requests Word, Excel or another format. Do not ask a delivery format question. A later request to convert completed research into a file does not require repeating the research. If another format is requested, proceed only where an available creation path can produce and validate it; otherwise explain and offer Chat, Word or Excel.