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.
npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill legal-research-guidegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-pluginsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/wentorai/research-plugins/legal-research-guide)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wentorai/research-plugins/legal-research-guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wentorai/research-plugins/legal-research-guide/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wentorai/research-plugins/legal-research-guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wentorai/research-plugins/legal-research-guide.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00016 | $0.02306 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00008 | $0.01153 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00461 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00231 |
Grade A, and why
legal-research-guide scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
response = requests.get( How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Legal Research Guide
Conduct systematic legal research across jurisdictions, analyze case law, navigate statutory frameworks, and use computational legal tools for academic and practice-oriented research.
Legal Research Frameworks
IRAC Method
The standard analytical framework for legal reasoning:
| Step | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Issue | Identify the legal question | "Does web scraping of public data constitute a CFAA violation?" |
| Rule | State the applicable legal rule | "The CFAA prohibits accessing a computer 'without authorization' or 'exceeding authorized access'" |
| Application | Apply the rule to the facts | "In hiQ v. LinkedIn, the 9th Circuit held that scraping publicly available data does not violate the CFAA..." |
| Conclusion | State the legal conclusion | "Therefore, scraping publicly available academic data likely does not violate the CFAA, though terms-of-service issues remain." |
CREAC Method (For Academic Legal Writing)
C - Conclusion (state your thesis)
R - Rule (present the legal rule with authority)
E - Explanation (analyze how courts have interpreted the rule)
A - Application (apply the rule to your specific scenario)
C - Conclusion (restate and refine conclusion)
Legal Research Databases
Primary Sources
| Database | Coverage | Cost | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westlaw (Thomson Reuters) | US, UK, EU, international | Subscription | Comprehensive case law, KeyCite citator |
| LexisNexis | US, UK, international | Subscription | News integration, Shepard's citator |
| Google Scholar (Case Law) | US federal and state courts | Free | Quick case lookup, citation tracking |
| Casetext / CoCounsel | US courts | Subscription | AI-powered legal research |
| CourtListener | US federal courts | Free | PACER alternative, bulk data |
| EUR-Lex | EU law | Free | EU legislation, CJEU case law |
| BAILII | UK, Ireland | Free | UK case law and legislation |
| Justia | US law | Free | US case law, statutes, regulations |
| HeinOnline | Historical legal materials | Subscription | Law journals, treaties, legislative history |
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 251 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 0c2f2a4fd2fb
legal-research-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository wentorai/research-plugins (291 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 2,306 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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