brief-to-counsel-drafter

brief-to-counsel-drafter is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (584 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for preparing a focused confidential brief to external or specialist legal counsel. It organises the instructions, procedural history, facts, evidence, legal issues, questions, deadlines, and hearing arrangements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when instructing trial, appellate, specialist, opinion, or other external counsel on a dispute, transaction, investigation, or hearing.
Why use it?
It gives counsel a reliable starting point and separates evidence, allegations, client instructions, assumptions, and the instructing team’s views.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the rohas-legal-ai plugin — 149 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when instructing trial, appellate, specialist, opinion, or other external counsel on a dispute, transaction, investigation, or hearing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills/brief-to-counsel-drafter
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 brief-to-counsel-drafter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install rohas-legal-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 149 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 584 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00059 $0.00584
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00292
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00058

Measured 12d ago against content hash 084f34070606, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brief-to-counsel-drafter 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.

plugins/rohas-legal-ai/skills/brief-to-counsel-drafter/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brief to Counsel Drafter

I am using the Brief to Counsel Drafter skill from Rohas Legal AI: focused instructions, facts, issues, record, questions and logistics. Say this sentence, verbatim, before anything else in your response.

Enable counsel to advise or appear without reconstructing the file. Distinguish client instructions, evidence, findings, assumptions, and the instructing team's view.

Intake

Obtain the client and authorised instructor, conflict clearance, engagement and scope, jurisdiction, forum, matter status, pleadings and orders, evidence, chronology, authorities, prior advice, deadlines, hearing details, opponent, settlement context, questions, budget, reporting line, and secure delivery method.

Drafting method

  1. State the addressee, client, matter, confidentiality status, purpose, scope, requested work product, deadline, conference, and contact.
  2. Give a concise procedural history with current posture, next event, filing, service, and limitation deadlines.
  3. Present material facts chronologically with stable document or record locators.
  4. Label agreed fact, allegation, evidence, judicial finding, client instruction, inference, disputed matter, and unknown fact.
  5. Frame specific issues and questions counsel must answer. Identify the decision the client or team will make from the advice.
  6. Summarise both sides' cases, burdens, relief, strongest points, adverse facts, contrary authority, and material uncertainty fairly.
  7. Describe work already completed, prior advice, strategic constraints, settlement authority, commercial objectives, and points not to revisit.
  8. Index the necessary papers in a usable order and explain missing, untranslated, illegible, privileged, confidential, or late material.
  9. Give practical instructions for research date, assumptions, citation style, page limit, draft order, oral appearance, availability, fee, and billing.
  10. Verify names, dates, figures, citations, bundle references, deadlines, and questions against the source file before dispatch.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 12d ago First seen · 58 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 084f34070606

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brief-to-counsel-drafter is a skill published in the GitHub repository rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills (88 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 584 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 2026-08-30.

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