engagement-letter

engagement-letter is a skill for Claude Code from protomated/protomated-plugins-official. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,440 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A legal writing aid that prepares a retainer and engagement letter—the agreement that explains what a law firm will do, how fees work, and what the client must do—from intake information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a new client is ready to hire the firm, using information from an intake file and relevant email correspondence. It creates a draft but does not send anything.
Why use it?
It reduces repetitive work when opening a new matter and can use the firm's saved template and agreed fee details. The attorney still checks the legally binding document before sending it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the solo-attorney-starter-kit plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when a new client is ready to hire the firm, using information from an intake file and relevant email correspondence. It creates a draft but does not send anything.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/protomated/protomated-plugins-official/engagement-letter
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 protomated/protomated-plugins-official --skill engagement-letter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/protomated/protomated-plugins-official

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-attorney-starter-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,440 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 $0.00058 $0.02440
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01220
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00488
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00244

Measured 8d ago against content hash bbda53d70839, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

engagement-letter 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 8d 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.

solo-attorney-starter-kit/skills/engagement-letter/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/engagement-letter — Engagement Letter Drafter

⚠️ AI-ASSISTED DRAFT — ATTORNEY REVIEW REQUIRED This output was generated by an AI assistant. It has not been reviewed by a licensed attorney. Do not send or have a client sign this letter without your independent review and approval. Engagement letters are binding agreements. This is not legal advice.

Draft a retainer and engagement letter from intake data in the matter folder. If the attorney has saved their own engagement-letter template, it fills that template's own wording rather than a generic letter. The attorney reviews, customizes, and sends it — the client never sees an AI-generated version without attorney sign-off.

This skill reads files only. It does not send anything.

Invocation

/engagement-letter [matter folder path or client name]

Workflow

Step 1 — Locate intake data

Use the Filesystem connector to find the matter folder. Look for:

  • intake.md or intake-summary.md — client name, contact info, matter description
  • Prior email with client (search Gmail: from:[client email] OR to:[client email] last 30 days) to capture agreed fee terms

If no intake file exists, ask the attorney to provide:

  1. Client full name and address
  2. Matter description (what you are being retained to do)
  3. Fee type: flat fee / hourly / contingency
  4. Fee amount or rate, and payment terms
  5. Any scope exclusions (what you are NOT handling)

Step 2 — Locate candidate templates

Before drafting, check whether the attorney has their own engagement-letter template on file — this skill fills in the attorney's own wording rather than a generic letter whenever one is available. Use the Filesystem connector to check, in order:

  1. The matter folder itself (a matter-specific override, if the attorney saved one there).
  2. A templates/ folder at the top level of the connected Filesystem workspace (e.g. ~/Matters/templates/) — the standard place to keep a template that gets reused across every matter.

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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. 8d ago First seen · 213 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A bbda53d70839

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engagement-letter is a skill published in the GitHub repository protomated/protomated-plugins-official (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,440 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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