Case Brief

Case Brief is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zgbrenner/agentcounsel. It costs 68 tokens per session (2,936 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fixed-format summary of one judicial opinion, a written decision by a court. It extracts the facts, procedural history, legal question, decision, reasoning, rule, and importance, with each part tied to a passage in the provided opinion.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps attorneys and researchers prepare a sourced case summary for legal research, briefing, or internal review.
Why use it?
It makes a long court decision easier to review without filling gaps from memory or smoothing over uncertainty. It also highlights ambiguous or narrow reasoning for attorney verification.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps attorneys and researchers prepare a sourced case summary for legal research, briefing, or internal review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zgbrenner/agentcounsel/case-brief
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 zgbrenner/agentcounsel --skill case-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zgbrenner/agentcounsel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 2,936 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 $0.02936
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01468
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00587
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00294

Measured 4d ago against content hash 80b3e5eb9e75, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Case Brief 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 4d 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-research/case-brief/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Case Brief

Purpose

Produce a structured, attorney-ready brief of a single judicial opinion. The brief extracts the facts, procedural posture, issue, holding, reasoning, rule, and authority weight into a fixed template, with every slot tied to a specific passage in the opinion the user has provided. It produces draft legal work product for attorney review; it is not legal advice, and it does not determine whether the case binds the operative forum or supports any specific proposition.

The most important disciplines this skill enforces:

  • Every slot is sourced. No facts, no holding, no rule statement appears in the brief unless it traces to a pinpoint passage in the provided opinion. The skill does not brief the case from memory; it extracts the language of the opinion into slots.
  • The brief pushes back rather than completes. Where the opinion is ambiguous, the holding is narrow, the reasoning is fact-bound, or the rule is qualified, the brief flags the ambiguity and writes a [VERIFY: ...] placeholder rather than smoothing the gap. The attorney is the verifier; the skill is the leash.
  • Authority weight is named, not assumed. The brief states the court, the date, the precedential level (binding / persuasive / non-precedential), and a Relevance-to-these-facts note. Whether the case is binding in the operative forum is an attorney-verification item; the skill does not assume.

Use When

  • A specific case has been identified for review and needs a structured brief before being integrated into a memo, brief, or chart.
  • A user provides an opinion and asks "what does this case say?" or "is this case relevant to X?"
  • A research workflow has surfaced 1–N cases and each needs to be briefed in the same shape before authority synthesis.
  • A litigation team needs a structured handoff brief for a case the attorney must read before relying on it.
  • A student or new lawyer needs a worked, pinpoint-cited brief of a case to learn how to read judicial opinions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. 4d ago First seen · 144 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 80b3e5eb9e75

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Case Brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository zgbrenner/agentcounsel (18 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,936 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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