uae-pdp-law

uae-pdp-law is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ThomasMoreAI/legal-skills-open. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,586 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for applying the United Arab Emirates Federal Personal Data Protection Law and its implementing rules. It covers personal-data handling, individual rights, sensitive data, international transfers, and duties of organisations that control or process data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess data-processing practices, rights requests, sensitive information, cross-border transfers, and controller or processor responsibilities in the UAE.
Why use it?
It helps teams identify privacy obligations when their systems handle personal data under UAE law and distinguish the federal rules from separate regimes in certain financial zones.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assess data-processing practices, rights requests, sensitive information, cross-border transfers, and controller or processor responsibilities in the UAE.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thomasmoreai/legal-skills-open/uae-pdp-law
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 ThomasMoreAI/legal-skills-open --skill uae-pdp-law
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ThomasMoreAI/legal-skills-open

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,586 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 $0.00095 $0.01586
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00793
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00317
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00159

Measured 12d ago against content hash 61221befaefa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

uae-pdp-law 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.

ae/data-protection/skills/uae-pdp-law/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

UAE Personal Data Protection Law Compliance

Overview

Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (the UAE PDP Law) was issued on 20 September 2021 and entered into force on 2 January 2022, with a compliance grace period. The Executive Regulations were issued by Cabinet Decision No. 111 of 2023, published in the Official Gazette on 23 October 2023, and companies were given until 1 January 2025 to achieve compliance. The UAE Data Office (established under the law) is the supervisory authority responsible for enforcement.

The UAE PDP Law is the first comprehensive federal data protection law in the UAE. It is important to note that the UAE also has separate data protection regimes in the financial free zones: the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Data Protection Law No. 5 of 2020 and the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) Data Protection Regulations 2021. These free zone laws operate independently of the federal law.

Key Definitions

UAE PDP Law Term GDPR Equivalent Definition
Personal Data Personal data Any data related to an identified or identifiable natural person (Article 1)
Sensitive Personal Data Special category data Data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinion, religious beliefs, criminal records, biometric data, health data, genetic data (Article 1)
Controller Controller Any person who determines the purposes and means of personal data processing (Article 1)
Processor Processor Any person who processes personal data on behalf of the controller (Article 1)
Data Subject Data subject The natural person to whom personal data relates (Article 1)

Lawful Bases for Processing (Article 5)

The controller may process personal data only where:

  1. Consent of the data subject — must be clear, specific, informed, unambiguous, easy to withdraw
  2. Necessary for performance or initiation of a contract with the data subject
  3. Necessary for compliance with legal obligations of the controller
  4. Necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another person
  5. Processing concerns data made public by the data subject
  6. Necessary for legal proceedings — establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims
  7. Necessary for medical purposes — preventive or occupational medicine, by a medical professional
  8. Necessary for public interest — archiving, statistical analysis, scientific research
  9. Necessary for the legitimate interests of the controller, provided data subject rights do not override

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

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 · 128 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 61221befaefa

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uae-pdp-law is a skill published in the GitHub repository ThomasMoreAI/legal-skills-open (72 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,586 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.