jurisd-research

jurisd-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from russellbrenner/jurisd. It costs 133 tokens per session (2,344 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An Australian and New Zealand legal research tool connected to AustLII, a database of cases and legislation. It can also work with installed offline legal data and format citations using the AGLC4 legal citation style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find cases and legislation, read judgments or provisions, see which cases cite another case, search installed legal data, create pinpoint citations, and build an AGLC4 bibliography.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent finding legal authorities, checking specific provisions, tracing citations, and formatting references. Offline data can provide deterministic results when available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to find cases and legislation, read judgments or provisions, see which cases cite another case, search installed legal data, create pinpoint citations, and build an AGLC4 bibliography.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/russellbrenner/jurisd/jurisd-research
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 russellbrenner/jurisd --skill jurisd-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/russellbrenner/jurisd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,344 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 50
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00133 $0.02344
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.01172
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00469
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00234

Measured 11d ago against content hash c82f64d57eb4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jurisd-research 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 11d 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.

skills/jurisd-research/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

jurisd is an MCP server for AU/NZ legal research. It searches AustLII, fetches full-text judgments, formats AGLC4 citations, manages a local citation cache + bibliography, and serves offline recall from installed data modules. There are 12 tools; operation variants are picked via a mode/op/action/by discriminator, not separate tools.

Core rule: local first, live as fallback

When data modules are installed (check with list_data_modules), prefer the offline tools for deterministic, citable, no-network answers. Fall through to live tools when the module misses or no module is installed. The local tools return a typed not-found so you can tell a genuine miss from an error.

Need Local first (offline) Live fallback
Read a specific provision (s 18) get_provision search_legislationfetch_document_text
Act outline / structure get_act_structure search_legislationfetch_document_text
Who cites this case find_citing — (local module graph only)
Concept / natural-language recall semantic_search_local search_cases / search_legislation

Always check list_data_modules once at the start of a research session so you know which layer to lead with. Every local answer carries metadata.source = "local_module" with module name, version, and snapshot date; mind the staleness advisory.

The 12 tools

Live research

  • search_cases — NL case-law search across all AU/NZ jurisdictions (AustLII, authority-ranked). method: auto/title/phrase/all/any/near/boolean; jurisdiction; sortBy auto/relevance/date; offset for pagination.
  • search_legislation — same controls for legislation (method adds legis).
  • fetch_document_text — full text from an AustLII URL (HTML, PDF via pdf-parse). Pass citeKey to also save a local source copy + freshness headers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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. 11d ago First seen · 153 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A c82f64d57eb4

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jurisd-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository russellbrenner/jurisd (35 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 2,344 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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