case-brief

case-brief is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,923 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A study tool that creates a case brief in the student's preferred format and includes an OSCOLA citation. A case brief is a short record of a case's facts, decision, reasoning, and legal significance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare case summaries for UK law study, practise recalling the holding, and place properly formatted citations in revision materials.
Why use it?
It turns a long judgment into a format that is easier to remember and use in a course outline, while drill mode makes the student state the court's decision first.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the law-student-uk plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare case summaries for UK law study, practise recalling the holding, and place properly formatted citations in revision materials.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/case-brief
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 uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins --skill case-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install law-student-uk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,923 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 $0.00056 $0.01923
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00962
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00385
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00192

Measured 7d ago against content hash ca2967073730, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

case-brief 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 7d 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.

law-student-uk/skills/case-brief/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.

/law-student-uk:case-brief

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/law-student-uk/CLAUDE.md → outline/brief preferences.
  2. Apply the workflow below.
  3. Brief in the student's format. If drill-me mode: ask the student to state the holding first.
  4. All case citations in OSCOLA format: Case Name [year] report abbreviation page — e.g., Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562.

Purpose

A case brief is a tool for remembering what a case does. This skill makes one in your format — the format you'll actually use in your outline.

UK court hierarchy and citation

Court of Appeal and Supreme Court decisions are binding. Cases should be identified by their proper citation:

  • UK Supreme Court (UKSC): R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 5 — cited as [year] UKSC [number]
  • Court of Appeal (CA/EWCA): Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd [1991] 1 QB 1
  • High Court (HC/EWHC): OBG Ltd v Allan [2007] UKHL 21 (pre-UKSC House of Lords; now UKSC)
  • House of Lords (HL): Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 (pre-October 2009 HoL decisions)
  • Privy Council (PC): persuasive but not binding on English courts

Scotland: Smith v Bank of Scotland 1997 SC (HL) 111; Court of Session reports cite as [year] SC / SLT / SCLR. Faculty of Advocates decisions in the Inner House or Outer House.

BAILII (www.bailii.org) is the free database for UK case law. All judgments from the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and High Court are available. Check BAILII before citing from memory.

Confidence discipline

Case briefs state holdings, rules, and reasoning. Getting them wrong turns your outline into a false map. The rule for this skill:

  • If you paste the case text: I extract holding/rule/reasoning from what's in front of me. Confident.
  • If you only give a case name: I brief from knowledge. Worth a lot less. I flag every line I'm not sure about with [UNCERTAIN: specific reason], and I strongly recommend you confirm against BAILII or your casebook before putting the brief in your outline. If I don't know the case well enough, I say so.
  • If the case has famous-but-contested interpretations: I give the majority read and [VERIFY: check your casebook and lecturer's framing].

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. 7d ago First seen · 128 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A ca2967073730

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case-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,923 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 2026-09-03.