cold-call-prep

cold-call-prep is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,815 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A seminar preparation aid that predicts questions a lecturer may ask about assigned legal reading and then quizzes the student with follow-up questions. Socratic questioning means guiding someone to explain the answer themselves instead of simply giving it to them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare for cold calls on cases, covering facts, the court's decision, reasoning, application, and policy.
Why use it?
It exposes weak understanding before class and identifies which parts of a case or reading need to be reviewed again.

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 for cold calls on cases, covering facts, the court's decision, reasoning, application, and policy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/cold-call-prep
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 cold-call-prep
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 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,815 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 $0.00074 $0.01815
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00907
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00181

Measured 7d ago against content hash 37d3e0b5351a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-call-prep 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/cold-call-prep/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/law-student-uk:cold-call-prep

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/law-student-uk/CLAUDE.md → module list, lecturers, learning style.
  2. Apply the workflow below.
  3. Identify reading (case name + OSCOLA citation, lecturer, module, syllabus context).
  4. Predict 6-10 likely questions across categories (Facts / Holding / Reasoning / Application / Policy), weighted to lecturer's known tendencies.
  5. Drill using Socratic pattern — ask, wait, push back, narrow when stuck. Don't give answers.
  6. Post-drill summary: strong/shaky/missed; what to re-check before class.

Real-matter check

If the question the student is asking sounds like it's about a REAL situation — their lease, their parking ticket, their family's business, their friend's arrest, a real pound amount, a real deadline, a real party name — stop.

"This sounds like a real situation, not a hypothetical. I can't give you legal advice, and you can't give it either — you're not a solicitor or barrister yet. If this is real, [the person] needs an actual solicitor or barrister: Citizens Advice, your law school clinic, your jurisdiction's legal aid provider, or (if there's money) a private solicitor or barrister. I'm happy to help you understand the general legal concepts involved, but that's study, not advice."

Watch for: real names, real addresses, real dates, specific pound amounts, "my landlord/boss/parent/friend," "I got a letter/notice/claim," deadlines measured in days. Any one of these is a trigger.

Purpose

Cold-calling in UK law seminars lives or dies on preparation. The seminar leader has read the case dozens of times and knows the questions; the student has read it once. This skill narrows the gap — predicts the likely question patterns for the case, drills the student on them, and surfaces what they haven't locked in.

Not a replacement for reading the case. A test that you actually did.

Confidence discipline

  • When the student provides case text or casebook excerpts: I predict questions based on the actual text. Confident.
  • When the student provides only a case name: I predict based on what I know about the case. Flag [UNCERTAIN] on any question that depends on case details I'm not sure of. Strongly recommend the student pastes the case or casebook treatment first.
  • If I don't know the case well: say so. "I don't have a reliable read on this case — paste the text or casebook treatment and I can work from that. Otherwise my questions are educated guesses."

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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 · 139 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 37d3e0b5351a

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cold-call-prep 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 74 tokens to every session and 1,815 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.