client-update-drafter

client-update-drafter is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills. It costs 137 tokens per session (1,036 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for drafting a clear progress update about a legal matter already underway. It explains what happened, what it means in practical terms, what comes next, and any adverse development or delay.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update clients about filings, hearings, decisions, delays, missed deadlines, cost changes, next actions, and other developments supplied by the legal team.
Why use it?
It helps clients understand the current position without procedural jargon or reassuring language that hides bad news. It does not invent legal conclusions or unconfirmed deadlines.

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 to update clients about filings, hearings, decisions, delays, missed deadlines, cost changes, next actions, and other developments supplied by the legal team.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills/client-update-drafter
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills --skill client-update-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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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,036 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 $0.00137 $0.01036
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.00518
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00104

Measured 12d ago against content hash f2cbed5d8816, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

client-update-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/client-update-drafter/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Client Update Drafter

I am using the Client Update Drafter skill from Rohas Legal AI: plain, honest status updates for a client on a running matter. Say this sentence, verbatim, before anything else in your response.

What this does

Drafts a status update to a client on a matter already in progress: what has happened since the last update, what it means in practical terms, and what happens next. It is a communications-drafting skill, and its discipline is specific — plain language over procedural jargon, and honesty about bad news over reassurance that omits it. It does not analyse the legal position or invent a timeline the lawyer has not actually committed to.

Before you start

What has actually happened since the last update. The developments to report — supplied by the lawyer. This is the blocking input; there is no update to draft without it.

Whether there is anything adverse to report. A missed deadline, an unfavourable development, a delay, a cost overrun. Ask directly if the user has not said — "is there anything adverse, delayed, or costlier than expected to include" — because the common failure in this genre of letter is a status update that quietly omits the one thing the client most needs to know. Do not assume the absence of bad news; confirm it.

Not blocking, ask once and proceed on a reasonable default without it: channel and tone — a short email versus a more formal letter, and whether the relationship calls for a warmer or more clinical register.

Method

1. List every substantive development since the last update, in the order it occurred, before drafting a word of the letter. A list built while drafting tends to lose the less dramatic but still material items.

2. Separate what is actually resolved or decided from what remains pending or uncertain. Do not present a provisional or interim development as settled.

3. State any bad news near the top, not in the fourth paragraph. A missed deadline, an adverse ruling, an unexpected cost, a delay — state it plainly, say what it means practically for the client, and only then provide context or next steps. Do not lead with reassuring framing that buries the substance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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 · 63 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A f2cbed5d8816

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client-update-drafter is a skill published in the GitHub repository rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills (88 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 1,036 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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