legal

legal is a skill for Claude Code from whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,725 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A legal-planning guide for solo SaaS founders forming a business and preparing basic legal documents, contracts, and compliance materials.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing between an LLC and a C-Corp, setting up an entity, drafting Terms of Service and a Privacy Policy, preparing contracts, and handling basic SaaS compliance.
Why use it?
It helps you identify the legal work needed at different stages and create informed first drafts before paying for extensive legal services. A licensed attorney should review anything that creates binding obligations.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the solo-founder-skills plugin — 54 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Choosing between an LLC and a C-Corp, setting up an entity, drafting Terms of Service and a Privacy Policy, preparing contracts, and handling basic SaaS compliance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/legal
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 whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill legal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-founder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 command.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,725 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00055 $0.02725
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01362
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00545
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00272

Measured 12d ago against content hash e0e7e0208b22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legal 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/legal/SKILL.md · 299 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 299 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Every SaaS needs three legal documents at launch: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and a basic entity structure. Everything else can wait. This skill helps you handle formation, legal docs, and compliance without overspending on attorneys.

Disclaimer: This skill produces informed first drafts based on common SaaS legal patterns. Always have a licensed attorney review before publishing anything that creates binding obligations.

Core Principles

  • Legal protection is insurance. You don't need everything on day one, but you need the right things at the right time.
  • Solo founders overspend on legal in two ways: paying a lawyer too early for things they don't need yet, or paying a lawyer too late after a problem they could have prevented.
  • Every SaaS product needs exactly three legal documents at launch: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and a basic entity structure. Everything else can wait.
  • Legal language should be readable. If your users can't understand your ToS, it's bad legal writing, not "standard."
  • Disclaimers: This skill produces informed first drafts based on common SaaS legal patterns. Always have a licensed attorney review before publishing anything that creates binding obligations.

Business Entity Decision

Solo Founder Entity Comparison

LLC (Limited Liability Company)

  • Best for: Solo founders who want simplicity and are bootstrapping.
  • Liability protection: Yes — separates personal and business assets.
  • Tax: Pass-through by default (income on personal return). Can elect S-Corp taxation later.
  • Paperwork: Minimal. Operating agreement + annual report (varies by state).
  • Cost: $50-500 to form depending on state.
  • When to choose: You're bootstrapping, have no plans to raise VC, want simplicity.

S-Corp (via LLC election)

  • Best for: Solo founders earning $60K+ in profit who want to reduce self-employment tax.
  • How: Form an LLC, then file IRS Form 2553 to elect S-Corp taxation.
  • Benefit: Pay yourself a "reasonable salary" (subject to payroll tax), take remaining profit as distributions (no self-employment tax).
  • When to choose: Once you're consistently profitable at $5K+/month.

Read the full file on GitHub · 299 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. 12d ago First seen · 299 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A e0e7e0208b22

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legal is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,725 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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