memo

memo is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 77 tokens per session (2,357 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured template for analysing a UK legal case using IRAC: issue, rule, application, and conclusion. It leaves the legal reasoning and conclusions for the student and marks areas needing research.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps frame legal issues, organise case facts, identify strengths and weaknesses, record research gaps, and prepare OSCOLA citation starting points.
Why use it?
Students can lose time organising a case analysis or overlook unanswered research questions before doing the substantive work.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the legal-clinic-uk plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps frame legal issues, organise case facts, identify strengths and weaknesses, record research gaps, and prepare OSCOLA citation starting points.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install legal-clinic-uk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,357 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 $0.00077 $0.02357
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01179
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00471
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00236

Measured 9d ago against content hash c83b7947af9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memo 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.

legal-clinic-uk/skills/memo/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/legal-clinic-uk/CLAUDE.md → practice areas, jurisdiction.
  2. Use the workflow below. Read intake summary / case notes.
  3. Frame issues as questions. Scaffold IRAC for each — Rule blocks are RESEARCH NEEDED, Application is STUDENT ANALYSIS prompts, Conclusion is blank.
  4. Strengths/weaknesses/open questions. Research gaps summary.
  5. Output with prominent "the analysis is yours" label. OSCOLA citation format throughout.
/legal-clinic-uk:memo

Memo: Internal Case Analysis

Purpose

The case analysis memo is where the student's thinking lives. This skill provides the IRAC scaffolding and flags the research gaps — the student fills in the analysis.

The analysis is the student's. This skill structures; it doesn't conclude.

Citations in this skill follow OSCOLA (Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities). Citation starts are provided in OSCOLA format as a research orientation; they are explicitly unverified and must be checked before use.

Load context

~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/legal-clinic-uk/CLAUDE.md → practice areas, jurisdiction (E&W / Scotland / NI), supervision style. Intake summary and case notes for facts.

Pedagogy check

Read the supervisor guide for this practice area at ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/legal-clinic-uk/guides/<practice-area>.md. Check the pedagogy_posture setting:

  • guide (default): Produce the IRAC structure and the research-gap list. Ask the student to draft each rule statement themselves from research. Give feedback on what they wrote. Offer to fill the framework rule for a section only when the student has tried once.
  • assist: Produce the memo scaffold and fill what can be filled. The [STUDENT ANALYSIS] and [STUDENT CONCLUSION] blocks remain blank by design — assist fills the IRAC scaffold and framework rule statement; it does not produce the application or the conclusion.
  • teach: Don't produce the framework or the scaffold content. Ask the student to frame the issues, state the rules from their research, and do the application. Give feedback. Ask leading questions when they're stuck.

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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. 9d ago First seen · 205 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A c83b7947af9b

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memo 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 77 tokens to every session and 2,357 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.