What is matter-intake?

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.

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.

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.

matter-intake — Skill for Claude Code by uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins

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.

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.

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00082	$0.03604
Opus 5.5	$0.00033	$0.01442
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00016	$0.00721
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00360

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3636d98a15c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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

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).
Follow the workflow and reference below.
Run the uniform intake: identification, conflicts check, source, risk triage, materiality, external solicitors, internal owners, legal hold, key dates, initial posture.
Generate slug from matter name (lowercase, hyphens, year).
Create ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/matters/[slug]/matter.md — full narrative intake.
Create ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/matters/[slug]/history.md — seeded with the intake as the first entry.
Append structured row to ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/matters/_log.yaml.
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.

1mo ago First seen · 317 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 3636d98a15c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

matter-intake is a skill published in the GitHub repository uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins (14 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 3,604 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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