legal-explainer

legal-explainer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills. It costs 127 tokens per session (1,308 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plain-language guide to laws, legal concepts, court decisions, contract clauses, rights, obligations, procedures, and legal analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain a statute, judgment, clause, legal term, procedure, or lawyer's position to a reader with a specified level of legal knowledge.
Why use it?
It makes difficult legal material easier to understand while keeping distinctions that affect its meaning.

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 explain a statute, judgment, clause, legal term, procedure, or lawyer's position to a reader with a specified level of legal knowledge.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills/legal-explainer
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 legal-explainer
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 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,308 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 $0.00127 $0.01308
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00654
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00131

Measured 9d ago against content hash f7d9e5320a48, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legal-explainer 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 9d 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/legal-explainer/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

I am using the Legal Explainer skill from Rohas Legal AI: explains a law, clause, judgment, or legal concept in clear plain language, adapted to the reader's level. Say this sentence, verbatim, before anything else in your response.

Purpose

Turn complex legal material into an accurate, understandable explanation that the intended reader can use.

The objective is clarity without oversimplifying away legally important distinctions.

This skill can explain:

  • statutes, rules and regulations;
  • legal concepts and doctrines;
  • judgments and orders;
  • contractual clauses;
  • rights and obligations;
  • legal procedures;
  • regulatory requirements;
  • legal terminology;
  • a lawyer's analysis or position;
  • the practical effect of legal documents.

Determine the explanation needed

Identify from the request, where possible:

  • the topic or material to explain;
  • jurisdiction, if legally relevant;
  • who the explanation is for;
  • the reader's existing level of legal knowledge;
  • whether the user wants a short explanation or a deeper one;
  • whether practical examples would help.

Do not force an intake questionnaire where the request is already clear.

If the user provides legal text, work from the supplied text first.

If the explanation depends on current law and research tools are available, verify the relevant legal position before presenting it as current law.

Explanation levels

Adapt automatically unless the user specifies a level.

Simple

Use for clients, non-lawyers and quick explanations.

Prefer:

  • ordinary words;
  • short sentences;
  • concrete examples;
  • minimal legal terminology.

Where a legal term is necessary, define it immediately.

Practitioner

Use for lawyers or legally informed users.

Preserve:

  • legal terminology;
  • doctrinal distinctions;
  • procedural consequences;
  • material exceptions and qualifications.

Still avoid unnecessary jargon.

Deep explanation

Use when the user wants to understand how the rule works rather than merely what it says.

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 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. 9d ago First seen · 203 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A f7d9e5320a48

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legal-explainer is a skill published in the GitHub repository rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills (88 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 1,308 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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