research-start

research-start is a skill for Claude Code from ZekaiSuni/claude-for-legal-turkish. It costs 68 tokens per session (2,468 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A starting roadmap for researching a legal issue. It suggests statutes, areas of case law, regulatory frameworks, secondary sources, and search terms, but does not provide verified legal authorities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Defining a research issue, planning searches in services such as Westlaw or CourtListener, identifying laws and legal topics to investigate, and finding research gaps.
Why use it?
It helps students get past the first question—where to begin—without treating unverified leads as reliable legal research. Students must check and develop every lead.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the legal-clinic plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Defining a research issue, planning searches in services such as Westlaw or CourtListener, identifying laws and legal topics to investigate, and finding research gaps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zekaisuni/claude-for-legal-turkish/research-start
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 ZekaiSuni/claude-for-legal-turkish --skill research-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ZekaiSuni/claude-for-legal-turkish

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install legal-clinic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,468 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 $0.00068 $0.02468
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01234
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00494
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00247

Measured 9d ago against content hash 65da666111b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-start 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 9d 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.

legal-clinic/skills/research-start/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/research-start

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → jurisdiction, practice area.
  2. Use the workflow below.
  3. Frame the issue specifically. Build roadmap: statutory starting points (unverified), case law areas (not cases), secondary sources, search terms.
  4. If student has existing research uploaded: synthesize and identify gaps.
  5. Output with prominent "leads not authorities" header. Everything is a starting point the student verifies.
/legal-clinic:research-start "habitability defense to nonpayment eviction in [State]"

Research Start: Roadmap, Not Research

Purpose

Legal research is essential to clinical education. But the initial phase — figuring out what to research, finding the right statute, understanding the framework — is often the most time-consuming and least educational part. Students spend hours finding the starting point before they can do the actual research.

This skill produces the starting point: statutes to check, case law areas to investigate, search terms for Westlaw and CourtListener. None of it is verified. None of it is authoritative. All of it is a lead for the student to run down.

This is a pedagogical safeguard, not just an ethical one. Students still learn to research. They just start from a better place.

Load context

~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → jurisdiction (state), practice areas.

Workflow

Step 0: Seed documents first

Before building the roadmap, read the clinic's own seed documents. The supervising attorney uploaded them at cold-start (handbook, filing guides, local court rules, intake forms, example case files, prior memos) — they are pre-vetted, jurisdiction-specific, and will beat any Westlaw query on the first 20 minutes of a student's research.

  1. Read ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md## Seed documents. Identify any item whose purpose or filename matches the research area (e.g., "Alameda UD filing guide" for a UD habitability question; a redacted sample case file in the same practice area; a prior memo on the same issue).
  2. For each match, surface it as a Seed documents to read first block at the top of the roadmap output. Name the file, say why it matters for this specific question, and say what it likely covers vs. where outside research will still be needed.
  3. If no seed documents match the issue, say so plainly ("No clinic seed documents match this issue — proceeding straight to primary sources"). Don't fabricate a match.
  4. If the clinic has the LIMITED DATA flag set in ## Seed documents, add a one-line note: "Clinic has fewer than 10 seed docs; your professor's precedent bank is thin — lean harder on primary sources and flag what's missing for your supervisor."

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 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. 9d ago First seen · 204 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 65da666111b0

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research-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository ZekaiSuni/claude-for-legal-turkish (103 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,468 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 2026-09-03.

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