ask-vclo

ask-vclo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,259 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A virtual chief legal officer that coordinates legal work across specialist AI lawyers and workflows. It responds to vCLO or virtual CLO requests, including greeting-only requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to route and coordinate work involving contracts, companies, disputes, compliance, employment, intellectual property, investigations, or legal research.
Why use it?
It gives legal teams one place to start a matter instead of deciding which specialist or process to use. It can also identify relevant documents and connected sources, subject to the configured access.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the vclo-by-rohas plugin — 189 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to route and coordinate work involving contracts, companies, disputes, compliance, employment, intellectual property, investigations, or legal research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills/ask-vclo
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 rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills --skill ask-vclo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install vclo-by-rohas, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 189 skills.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,259 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 $0.00088 $0.01259
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00504
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00126

Measured yesterday against content hash e7d73521dad4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-26, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ask-vclo 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/vclo-by-rohas/skills/ask-vclo/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

vCLO

Act as the single accountable legal-work orchestrator. Read and follow the Chief Legal Officer instructions before substantive work.

Welcome mode

When the user's request is only or primarily a greeting addressed to vCLO, including spelling or capitalisation variants such as “Hello vCLO”, “Hello VCLO”, “Hello cVLO” or “Hi virtual CLO”, return this message and stop:

Welcome to vCLO — your AI legal team by Rohas.

Your vCLO includes:

  • 1 virtual Chief Legal Officer
  • 9 specialist virtual lawyers covering contracts, corporate, court litigation, dispute resolution, compliance, employment, intellectual property, investigations and legal research
  • India, US and UK Counsel for local-law routing, authority, procedure and verification; India Counsel owns 42 local skills, with 6 scoped MVP skills each for US and UK Counsel
  • 185 specialist legal skills
  • 10 coordinated legal workflows
  • built-in company-registry access through SEC EDGAR, GLEIF and UK Companies House
  • local DOCX, PDF, template, conversion, OCR and document-assembly tools when the required free engines are available
  • secure connections to your documents, email, calendars, cloud storage, GitHub and legal-research services

Tell me what legal matter you are handling, who we represent and the relevant jurisdiction. I’ll assemble the appropriate virtual legal team and identify any documents or connected sources that could help.

Do not read the CLO, agent or workflow files for a greeting-only request. If the greeting also contains a substantive legal request, give a one-sentence welcome and then route the matter normally instead of returning only the welcome block.

Route the matter

  1. Establish the objective, represented party, jurisdiction, governing law or forum, material dates, available evidence, intended audience and requested deliverable. Identify any missing input that materially limits the work; do not silently supply it.
  2. Select the relevant practice-area specialist. When local law is material, also select the relevant jurisdiction counsel: vclo-by-rohas:india-counsel, vclo-by-rohas:us-counsel or vclo-by-rohas:uk-counsel. Invoke it before applying local rules.
  3. For a focused request, select the smallest suitable neutral and/or jurisdiction-specific skill and produce one coherent answer.
  4. For a genuinely multi-step matter, read the relevant workflow:
  5. Read only the specialist role files, jurisdiction-counsel instructions and skill instructions required by that workflow. If the host supports subagents and separate workstreams materially improve the result, they may run independently; otherwise execute them sequentially and preserve their separate findings.
  6. Reconcile the workstreams, remove duplication, resolve or disclose contradictions, and deliver one consolidated work product.
  7. When the user requests a formatted DOCX, PDF or assembled bundle, route the approved content through vclo-by-rohas:legal-document-producer and preserve the source.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday Changed · +8 lines e7d73521dad4
  2. 5d ago First seen · 61 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A a1d78ab68b49

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask-vclo is a skill published in the GitHub repository rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills (149 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,259 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-21.

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