witness-examination-prep

witness-examination-prep is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 85 tokens per session (3,070 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A preparation workflow for questioning a witness in a legal case or preparing that witness for their statement. It gathers relevant documents, organises topics around the case theory, and identifies material that may affect credibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a cross-examination outline or questions for preparing a witness statement. It helps organise background, key documents, case topics, and possible impeachment material, meaning evidence that may challenge a witness’s reliability.
Why use it?
It reduces the effort of turning a large document set and case theory into a usable examination plan. It also separates ordinary preparation points from issues that need legal review.

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 to create a cross-examination outline or questions for preparing a witness statement. It helps organise background, key documents, case topics, and possible impeachment material, meaning evidence that may challenge a witness’s reliability.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/witness-examination-prep
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins --skill witness-examination-prep
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 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,070 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 $0.00085 $0.03070
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01535
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00614
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00307

Measured 8d ago against content hash 51c0e4b16edf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

witness-examination-prep 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 8d 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/witness-examination-prep/SKILL.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/witness-examination-prep

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/CLAUDE.md → case theory, key facts.
  2. Follow the workflow and reference below.
  3. Pull documents authored by / mentioning witness from declared document sources.
  4. Build outline: background, key documents, topics tied to theory, impeachment or credibility material.

Cross-Examination and Witness Preparation

Witness statements for England & Wales — PD 57AC

If the user's jurisdiction includes England & Wales and they are asking for a trial witness statement for the Business and Property Courts (or any CPR-governed proceeding where PD 57AC applies), the Practice Direction imposes strict requirements. The statement must:

  • Be in the witness's own words — drafted by the witness, not by a legal representative using documents
  • Not contain argument or commentary
  • Identify the documents the witness used to refresh their memory
  • Carry the required confirmation of compliance signed by the witness
  • Carry the legal representative's certificate of compliance

Drafting a narrative "as the witness" from a chronology, document set, or the solicitor's account of the case is exactly what PD 57AC was designed to prevent. Courts, including the Business and Property Courts, are actively applying sanctions for AI-assisted witness statement drafting that does not comply with PD 57AC. If you ask me to draft a witness statement in the witness's voice from case materials, I will not.

What I WILL do:

  • Prepare interview questions to elicit the witness's actual recollection
  • Capture and organise what the witness says (their words, not mine) in preparation for the statement
  • Generate the list of documents that were put to the witness during preparation
  • Run a PD 57AC compliance checklist against a draft statement that the witness has already prepared
  • Draft the legal representative's certificate of compliance once the statement is finalised

The statement is the witness's evidence. I help prepare the witness to give it. I do not give the evidence on the witness's behalf.

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 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. 8d ago First seen · 224 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 51c0e4b16edf

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witness-examination-prep 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 85 tokens to every session and 3,070 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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