cease-desist

cease-desist is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 63 tokens per session (8,622 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided tool for writing a cease-and-desist letter or reviewing one you received. A cease-and-desist letter asks someone to stop alleged unlawful conduct.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to demand that someone stop infringing your rights, or to assess whether to comply, respond, negotiate, or seek advice after receiving a letter.
Why use it?
It turns an infringement dispute into a structured set of response options and helps calibrate the letter to your enforcement approach.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ip-legal-uk plugin — 9 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to demand that someone stop infringing your rights, or to assess whether to comply, respond, negotiate, or seek advice after receiving a letter.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ip-legal-uk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,622 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 $0.00063 $0.08622
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.04311
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.01724
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00862

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4137b61672e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cease-desist 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.

ip-legal-uk/skills/cease-desist/SKILL.md · 507 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 507 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/cease-desist

Two modes. Pick one:

  • /ip-legal-uk:cease-desist --send — draft a cease-and-desist letter calibrated to your enforcement posture. Loud gate runs before delivery.
  • /ip-legal-uk:cease-desist --receive — triage a C&D someone sent you. Produces an options memo with a recommendation.

Instructions

  1. Read the practice profile. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/ip-legal-uk/CLAUDE.md. If it contains [PLACEHOLDER] markers or does not exist, stop and say: "This plugin needs setup before it can give you useful output. Run /ip-legal-uk:cold-start-interview — the C&D skill depends on your enforcement posture, approval matrix, and practice-area mix, none of which are configured yet."

  2. Check matter workspaces. Per ## Matter workspaces: if Enabled is , skip — skills use practice-level context. If enabled and there is no active matter, ask: "Which matter is this for? Run /ip-legal-uk:matter-workspace switch <slug> or say practice-level."

  3. Dispatch on $ARGUMENTS:

    • If --send is present: run send mode (below). Walk through identify-the-right, identify-the-conduct, identify-the-relationship, identify-the-demand, calibrate-to-posture, draft, and the pre-delivery gate.
    • If --receive is present: run receive mode (below). Ask for the incoming letter (path or pasted text), then assess, identify exposure, present options, and write the triage memo.
    • If neither flag is present: ask once — "Are we sending a cease-and-desist (you're asserting) or triaging one we received (you're defending)?" — and then dispatch.
  4. Respect the gate. In send mode, the loud gate runs before any final draft is written to disk. Do not skip it.

  5. Respect the approval matrix. Pull the approver for the C&D row from ## Enforcement posture → Approval matrix. Pull automatic escalations. Surface both in the gate; do not smother them.

  6. Hand off where appropriate. In receive mode, if the recommendation is to respond firmly, offer to chain into /ip-legal-uk:cease-desist --send pre-populated with the response context. If the recommendation is to pre-empt with a declaratory relief action or UK IPO cancellation, escalate to outside counsel per the practice profile's IP litigation row — do not draft.

Read the full file on GitHub · 507 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. 9d ago First seen · 507 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 4137b61672e8

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cease-desist 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 63 tokens to every session and 8,622 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.

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