international-expansion

international-expansion is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 64 tokens per session (3,549 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of international-expansion, Apache-2.0.

A planning reference for hiring employees in other countries, including whether to use an employer of record or create a local company. An employer of record is a service that formally employs workers for another business.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map stakeholder questions, prepare requests for outside counsel, and keep track of unresolved gaps during an international expansion.
Why use it?
International hiring involves linked legal, tax, finance, human-resources, and employee-representation questions that can otherwise be handled separately or overlooked.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the employment-legal-uk plugin — 17 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to map stakeholder questions, prepare requests for outside counsel, and keep track of unresolved gaps during an international expansion.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install employment-legal-uk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/international-expansion"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/international-expansion.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,549 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00064 $0.03549
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01775
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00710
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00355

Measured 12d ago against content hash 564ed9a9096c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

international-expansion 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to international-expansion — 20 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

employment-legal-uk/skills/international-expansion/SKILL.md · 362 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 362 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

International Expansion Skill

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 /employment-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/employment-legal-uk/matters/<matter-slug>/. Never read another matter's files unless Cross-matter context is on.


Purpose

International hiring gets handled sloppily at scaleups because nobody owns the full picture. Legal knows the employment-law questions but not the PE risk questions. Finance knows the cost model but not the employee-representation triggers. HR knows the comp benchmarks but not the Day 1 compliance requirements.

This skill doesn't replace any of those functions. It maps the terrain, drafts the right questions for each stakeholder, produces a briefing request that walks outside counsel through the country-specific issues, and creates a tracker that keeps the project moving across sessions.

This skill assumes expansion is decided. It is not a "should we expand?" framework.

This skill does not contain country-specific employment law. The substantive rules change frequently and vary by role, headcount, and industry — the skill routes every country through an outside-counsel briefing rather than relying on a stored reference table.

Load context

Read ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/employment-legal-uk/CLAUDE.md → jurisdictional footprint, escalation table, any existing expansion notes.

Output header

Prepend the work-product header from ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/employment-legal-uk/CLAUDE.md## Outputs (it differs by user role — see ## Who's using this).

Read the full file on GitHub · 362 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 · 362 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 564ed9a9096c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

international-expansion 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 64 tokens to every session and 3,549 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to international-expansion, differing in 20 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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