matter-intake

matter-intake is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 82 tokens per session (3,604 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured intake workflow for opening a new legal matter, meaning a dispute, claim, or other legal issue. It records consistent information about conflicts, risk, owners, legal holds, external solicitors, and important dates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when bringing a new matter into a legal portfolio. It asks the intake questions, creates the matter files, and adds a row to the portfolio log after confirmation.
Why use it?
It prevents important opening details from being captured inconsistently or missed. It creates both a readable matter record and a structured portfolio entry for later tracking.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the litigation-legal-uk plugin — 16 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when bringing a new matter into a legal portfolio. It asks the intake questions, creates the matter files, and adds a row to the portfolio log after confirmation.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install litigation-legal-uk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,604 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 $0.00082 $0.03604
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01802
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00721
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00360

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3636d98a15c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

matter-intake 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.

litigation-legal-uk/skills/matter-intake/SKILL.md · 317 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 317 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/matter-intake

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/CLAUDE.md → risk calibration (for triage), landscape (for context, conflicts method), stakeholders (for who to loop in).
  2. Follow the workflow and reference below.
  3. Run the uniform intake: identification, conflicts check, source, risk triage, materiality, external solicitors, internal owners, legal hold, key dates, initial posture.
  4. Generate slug from matter name (lowercase, hyphens, year).
  5. Create ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/matters/[slug]/matter.md — full narrative intake.
  6. Create ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/matters/[slug]/history.md — seeded with the intake as the first entry.
  7. Append structured row to ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/matters/_log.yaml.
  8. Confirm with the user: "Here's the row I'll write — any edits?"

Matter Intake

Purpose

Every new matter goes through the same intake so the portfolio stays comparable. Uniform rows in _log.yaml let the status skill roll up. Narrative in matter.md captures what the row can't. History file seeded here becomes the event record.

Load context

  • ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/CLAUDE.md — risk calibration (triage thresholds, materiality, settlement ladder), landscape (stakeholders, external solicitors bench).
  • ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/matters/_log.yaml — to confirm slug uniqueness.

The intake

1. Identification

  • Matter name (as commonly referenced, e.g., "Acme v. Us 2026")
  • Counterparty
  • Matter type: contract | employment | ip | regulatory | investigation | product | other
  • Our role: claimant | defendant | applicant | respondent | investigated
    • If the practice profile's ## Side is claimant, defendant, or a "both — default X" variant, pre-fill the role from that default and confirm. If ## Side is varies by matter, ask cold. Never silently assume a posture the practice profile hasn't set.
    • The role drives downstream skills: claimant-posture matters route risk triage to case value / CFA/DBA economics; defendant-posture matters route to exposure / reserves / insurance tender.
  • Jurisdiction (court, arbitration forum, or regulatory body — England & Wales / Scotland / Northern Ireland / other)

Read the full file on GitHub · 317 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 · 317 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 3636d98a15c6

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matter-intake 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 82 tokens to every session and 3,604 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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