gap-surfacer

gap-surfacer is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 86 tokens per session (3,352 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tracker for policy gaps caused by changes in UK regulation, including their remediation status, owners, and age.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to import gaps from regulatory comparisons, review aging open items, route them to owners, and prepare confirmed Slack notifications.
Why use it?
It keeps unresolved compliance work visible and assigns responsibility instead of letting policy issues go unnoticed.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the regulatory-legal-uk plugin — 6 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to import gaps from regulatory comparisons, review aging open items, route them to owners, and prepare confirmed Slack notifications.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install regulatory-legal-uk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,352 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 $0.00086 $0.03352
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01676
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00670
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00335

Measured 9d ago against content hash 19651ca89234, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gap-surfacer 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.

regulatory-legal-uk/skills/gap-surfacer/SKILL.md · 232 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gap Surfacer

Owner notifications: on by default. To opt an owner out, leave owner_slack empty.

Per-send confirmation — no exceptions

Before sending ANY Slack message (assignment notice, overdue reminder, bulk notification, status report):

  1. Show the user exactly what you're about to send and to whom: "I'm about to send this to [N] people: [preview]."
  2. Wait for an explicit yes.
  3. If the message contains any citations, deadlines, or compliance conclusions, add: "⚠️ The citations in this message are unverified — I'm not confirming they're current before sending. Do you want me to add a 'verify before acting' line?"
  4. Never send without the confirm. Not on a cadence. Not in a batch. Not because it was sent yesterday.

Auto-send without confirmation is the most irreversible action in this plugin. Regulatory compliance deadlines sent unchecked to owners who have no way to verify them is the exact scenario this rule exists to prevent.

Matter context

Matter context. Check ## Matter workspaces in the practice-level CLAUDE.md. If Enabled is (the default for in-house users), skip the rest of this paragraph — skills use practice-level context and the matter machinery is invisible. If enabled and there is no active matter, ask: "Which matter is this for? Run /regulatory-legal-uk:matter-workspace switch <slug> or say practice-level." Load the active matter's matter.md for matter-specific context and overrides. Write outputs to the matter folder at ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/regulatory-legal-uk/matters/<matter-slug>/. Never read another matter's files unless Cross-matter context is on.


Purpose

UK regulatory gaps get found and then forgotten. This skill tracks them until they're closed and notifies the people responsible for closing them.

The tracker

Lives at ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/regulatory-legal-uk/gap-tracker.yaml:

Note on consultation-tracker.yaml: ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/regulatory-legal-uk/consultation-tracker.yaml is a sibling file owned by the comments skill. It is written to by reg-feed-watcher (which logs UK consultations automatically) and the comments skill (which tracks user-initiated consultation response decisions). This skill does not read or cross-reference it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 232 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 232 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 19651ca89234

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gap-surfacer 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 86 tokens to every session and 3,352 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.

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