legal-risk-checker

legal-risk-checker is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,169 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review tool for spotting possible legal problems in journalism, such as defamation, privacy, contempt of court, and data-protection risks. It examines a story brief, article draft, or broadcast script before publication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review stories involving allegations, named people, anonymous sources, private individuals, investigations, or court restrictions.
Why use it?
It helps identify claims or circumstances that may need evidence, legal review, or changes before they are published.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review stories involving allegations, named people, anonymous sources, private individuals, investigations, or court restrictions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/legal-risk-checker
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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill legal-risk-checker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,169 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 89
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00045 $0.02169
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01085
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00434
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00217

Measured 12d ago against content hash 67f5ee4beb56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legal-risk-checker 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 12d 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.

skills/archive-legal/legal-risk-checker/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What This Skill Does

Reviews a story brief, draft article, or broadcast script and flags potential legal risks — including defamation, privacy, contempt of court, and data protection — so you know what to check before publication.

When To Use This Skill

  • Before publishing any story that makes allegations about named individuals, organisations, or institutions
  • When a story involves ongoing legal proceedings, criminal investigations, or civil litigation
  • When a source is anonymous and the story relies on unverified claims
  • When reporting on private individuals (as opposed to public figures acting in a public role)
  • When your editor or legal team asks for a pre-publication risk summary
  • Before broadcasting or publishing content that may conflict with court injunctions, super-injunctions, or reporting restrictions

What You Need To Provide

Required:

  • A summary or draft of the story: the core allegation or claim, who is named, what evidence you hold, and how the story was sourced
  • The publication format (web article, print, broadcast, social media post) and intended territory of publication
  • Whether any named party has been given the opportunity to respond, and what their response was (or whether they declined to comment)

Optional:

  • Whether any related legal proceedings are underway (criminal trial, civil case, inquest, tribunal)
  • The publication outlet type (national newspaper, local broadcaster, independent digital outlet) — affects the practical exposure level
  • Any legal correspondence or threats already received from parties in the story

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Reads the story summary and identifies the legal categories that are potentially engaged: defamation, privacy (including data protection), contempt of court, harassment, malicious falsehood, or copyright/confidence. Notes which are relevant and which are not, with brief reasons.
  2. For each relevant legal category, flags the specific elements of the story that create risk — naming a claim, naming a source, naming a subject, the nature of the allegation, the strength of the evidence described, and whether a right of reply was offered.
  3. Assigns each flag a risk level (Low / Medium / High) with a plain-English explanation: what the risk is, why this part of the story triggers it, and what a court or regulator would likely focus on.
  4. Produces a set of concrete pre-publication steps: specific questions to answer, documents to obtain, changes to consider, and the threshold at which legal counsel must be involved before publication.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 105 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 67f5ee4beb56

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legal-risk-checker is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,169 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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