us-court-records

us-court-records is a skill for Claude Code from Nolpak14/getregdata. It costs 157 tokens per session (2,650 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lookup tool for U.S. lawsuits, federal court dockets, and published court opinions using CourtListener, a free-law database. It searches people or companies named in litigation records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review lawsuits, judgments, docket details, and published opinions involving a company or its directors and beneficial owners. It covers the litigation part of a broader compliance check, separately from sanctions or government debarment.
Why use it?
It helps uncover possible legal disputes and adverse history during due diligence. Search results are only possible matches, so common names need manual checking to confirm the correct person or company.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the regdata-due-diligence plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review lawsuits, judgments, docket details, and published opinions involving a company or its directors and beneficial owners. It covers the litigation part of a broader compliance check, separately from sanctions or government debarment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nolpak14/getregdata/us-court-records
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 Nolpak14/getregdata --skill us-court-records
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nolpak14/getregdata

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install regdata-due-diligence, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 157 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,650 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00157 $0.02650
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.01325
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00530
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00265

Measured 10d ago against content hash 89497185beb7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

us-court-records scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 10d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -H "Authorization: Token $CL_TOKEN" \
skills/us-court-records/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

us-court-records

Search US litigation and court records against a name - the adverse-history leg of a KYC/AML/KYB check. Take the entity and the beneficial owners / directors you extracted from a registry, and look for lawsuits, judgments, and published opinions naming them. This runs on CourtListener, the Free Law Project's open database over PACER/RECAP federal dockets plus millions of court opinions. Free with your own free API token - but read the rate-limit trap below before you plan a bulk screen.

Persona

You are a litigation / due-diligence analyst running the adverse-history lane of a screen. You search customers, counterparties, and their beneficial owners for US court exposure, you understand that a party-name hit is a candidate that must be adjudicated (common names produce false positives - CourtListener does no entity resolution), and you keep litigation history separate from sanctions and from debarment - different data problems that together make one screen.

What this gives you (for free)

  • Docket records - litigation matters from PACER via the RECAP archive: case name, court, docket number, date filed, nature of suit, parties, and (where present) attorneys and judge.
  • Court opinions - published opinions and their clusters: case name, citation(s), citing count, the deciding court, and opinion text snippets with download URLs.
  • People / judges - the judiciary database, for resolving a named judge.
  • Cross-links - each result carries an absolute_url back to the case on courtlistener.com and, for RECAP items, links to the underlying documents.

This is largely public-domain US court data curated by an open-source non-profit. Reuse is permitted; attribution is expected. Responses are JSON and paginated (count / next / previous).

Authentication (free, but read the rate-limit trap)

  1. Register a free account at https://www.courtlistener.com and generate a token under Profile -> API tokens.
  2. Pass it as an HTTP header on every call: Authorization: Token <your-token>. Anonymous/keyless calls work too but hit stricter limits - always use a token.
  3. The rate limit is the real constraint, not the signup. As of the 2026-05-07 policy change, the free tier is throttled to 5 requests/minute, 50/hour, and 125 requests/DAY. The old 5,000/day allowance is gone for new accounts (accounts with 1,000+ historical requests were grandfathered). Heavy or bulk use needs a paid Free Law Project membership.

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. 10d ago First seen · 154 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A 89497185beb7

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us-court-records is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nolpak14/getregdata (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 157 tokens to every session and 2,650 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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