policy-starter

policy-starter is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 113 tokens per session (3,769 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A drafting tool for creating a proposed artificial-intelligence policy for a UK legal practice. It adapts published guidance and model policies to the practice's profile, and the result still needs solicitor review and adoption.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scope the policy, research Law Society, ICO, SRA, Bar Council, and sector guidance, draft selected sections with review markers, and produce sources, open questions, and an adoption checklist.
Why use it?
It gathers relevant sources and highlights decisions for review, reducing the effort of starting a policy while making clear that the draft is not final legal or organisational policy.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ai-governance-legal-uk plugin — 10 skills, 5 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to scope the policy, research Law Society, ICO, SRA, Bar Council, and sector guidance, draft selected sections with review markers, and produce sources, open questions, and an adoption checklist.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-governance-legal-uk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 5 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,769 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 $0.00113 $0.03769
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01885
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00754
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00377

Measured 11d ago against content hash fdfe4ed991d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

policy-starter 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 11d 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.

ai-governance-legal-uk/skills/policy-starter/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.

/policy-starter

  1. Read ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/ai-governance-legal-uk/CLAUDE.md. If the practice profile is unpopulated, stop and direct to /ai-governance-legal-uk:cold-start-interview.
  2. Use the framework below.
  3. Run the scope interview — which sections does the policy need to cover, who's the audience, what's the deployment context. Do not skip to drafting.
  4. Web search for the current published UK model policies and guidance relevant to the deployment context (Law Society AI guidance, ICO AI guidance, SRA risk outlook, Bar Council guidance, sector regulator guidance, peer-firm / peer-company policies, EU AI Act Art. 4 AI literacy requirements if EU nexus).
  5. Draft the selected sections, sourced from the UK model policies, with [review] flags on every choice point and [review] open questions at the bottom of each section.
  6. Output with the draft header ("DRAFT FOR INTERNAL LEGAL REVIEW — NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION"), the sources block, the reviewer note, and the adoption checklist.
  7. Close with the next-steps decision tree.
/ai-governance-legal-uk:policy-starter
/ai-governance-legal-uk:policy-starter "we need an AI policy for our 30-solicitor firm"
/ai-governance-legal-uk:policy-starter "update our existing policy for ICO AI guidance"

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

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. 11d ago First seen · 205 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A fdfe4ed991d5

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policy-starter 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 113 tokens to every session and 3,769 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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