witness-summons-triage

witness-summons-triage is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 98 tokens per session (4,706 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for reviewing a witness summons or third-party disclosure order, which requires a person or organisation to provide testimony or documents. It classifies the request and prepares a framework for objections, compliance, and deadlines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse an incoming summons or disclosure order, check related matters, and prepare an objections framework, compliance plan, and deadline calendar. It can also point to related legal-hold, matter-intake, or matter-briefing work.
Why use it?
It turns a potentially complex legal demand into a structured response plan. It also highlights scope, workload, privilege, and situations that require escalation.

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 analyse an incoming summons or disclosure order, check related matters, and prepare an objections framework, compliance plan, and deadline calendar. It can also point to related legal-hold, matter-intake, or matter-briefing work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/witness-summons-triage
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins --skill witness-summons-triage
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 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,706 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 $0.00098 $0.04706
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.02353
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00941
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00471

Measured 8d ago against content hash 71af4245b15c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

witness-summons-triage 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-summons-triage/SKILL.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/witness-summons-triage

  1. Read the witness summons or order from provided path.
  2. Classify (third-party-docs / witness-summons-depo / party / regulatory-notice / criminal).
  3. If criminal compulsion (e.g., serious fraud / police production order) → stop, escalate per ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/CLAUDE.md. Otherwise continue.
  4. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/matters/_log.yaml for cross-check. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/CLAUDE.md → landscape, privilege conventions, escalation norms.
  5. Follow the workflow and reference below.
  6. Extract key fields, analyse scope/burden/privilege, produce objections framework + compliance plan + deadline calendar.
  7. Write ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/inbound/[slug]/triage.md. Copy or link document to ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/litigation-legal-uk/inbound/[slug]/incoming.[ext].
  8. Hand off: /legal-hold --issue if hold not in place; /matter-intake if materiality warrants; /matter-briefing [slug] if party to existing matter.

Witness Summons and Third-Party Disclosure Order Triage

Purpose

Witness summonses and third-party disclosure orders arrive with deadlines. The failure modes: missing the deadline, over-producing (LPP waiver, burden we should have objected to), under-producing (contempt exposure), or missing an application-to-set-aside window. This skill classifies, analyses, and produces a compliance plan with objections framework.

UK procedural framework

In England & Wales, the mechanisms for compelling third-party evidence and documents differ from US subpoena practice:

  • Witness summons (CPR Part 34, r 34.2–34.7): Issued by the court requiring a person to attend to give oral evidence or produce documents at trial or at a hearing. A witness summons to produce documents at trial is issued by the court; the recipient may apply to set it aside or vary it. Separate from the party disclosure regime.
  • Third-party disclosure (CPR 31.17): An application by a party for an order requiring a non-party to disclose documents. The court may order disclosure if the documents are likely to support the case of the applicant or adversely affect the case of another party, and disclosure is necessary to dispose fairly of the claim or to save costs. Not automatic — requires a court order.
  • Norwich Pharmacal order: A court order requiring a third party who has facilitated wrongdoing (innocently or otherwise) to disclose information enabling the applicant to identify the wrongdoer or obtain relief. A more powerful tool than CPR 31.17 in certain contexts.
  • Bankers Trust order / disclosure for asset tracing: Specific form of third-party disclosure in fraud and asset-recovery contexts.
  • Regulatory notices and production orders: FCA, CMA, ICO, SFO, HMRC, and other regulators have separate statutory powers to compel document production and information disclosure. These operate under different statutory frameworks from civil procedure and require specialist regulatory advice.
  • Criminal production orders (PACE / POCA): Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Schedule 1), Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 — criminal compulsion; escalate immediately to criminal-law specialist.
  • Scotland: Commission and diligence procedure (RPO / commission) under the Rules of the Court of Session or Sheriff Court Rules; no direct equivalent to CPR Part 34. Flag for Scottish solicitors.
  • Northern Ireland: Rules of the Court of Judicature (NI); broadly similar to England & Wales but flag for NI-specific advice.

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 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 · 289 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 71af4245b15c

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witness-summons-triage 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 98 tokens to every session and 4,706 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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