Deposition Preparation

Deposition Preparation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zgbrenner/agentcounsel. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,541 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured outline for preparing to question or defend a witness at a deposition, where testimony is given under oath before trial. It organizes topics, key documents, and facts around the case theory.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning topic areas, linking questions to documents, preparing for different witness roles, and organizing follow-up questions.
Why use it?
It gives the attorney a focused map for the deposition and reduces the risk of overlooking important documents or lines of questioning. It supports preparation without writing answers for the witness.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for planning topic areas, linking questions to documents, preparing for different witness roles, and organizing follow-up questions.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,541 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 $0.00037 $0.02541
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01270
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00508
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00254

Measured 5d ago against content hash ff2b22f231cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Deposition Preparation 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 5d 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/litigation/deposition-prep/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deposition Preparation

Purpose

Produce a structured deposition outline for attorney review and use. The outline is a strategic map — not a script — that organizes topic blocks, document anchors, and a pivot-fact sequence around the case theory. It is draft legal work product for attorney review; it is not legal advice. The attorney drives the deposition. The skill never drafts a witness statement in the witness's own voice.

Use When

  • Counsel needs to prepare for an upcoming deposition and wants a structured question outline organized around topic blocks.
  • A user asks to "prep for a deposition," "draft a depo outline," or "organize the documents for the [witness] deposition."
  • The case theory and witness role are clear enough to define a deposition goal.
  • Preparing for an adverse, neutral, friendly, or organizational-representative witness.

Required Inputs

  • Matter identification — matter name, matter number, or a brief description sufficient to identify the case.
  • Case theory — one sentence stating the factual and legal proposition the deposing party is trying to establish or defend.
  • Witness profile — the witness's name, role in the matter, why this witness is being deposed, and posture: adverse, friendly, neutral, or organizational representative (an entity's designated representative).
  • Deposition rules of the forum — the procedural rules governing the deposition (duration limits, objection conventions, scope limitations). Treat any statement of forum rules as [verify jurisdiction] until confirmed by the responsible attorney.
  • Documentary record — documents to be used in the deposition, provided in full or described with Bates range or a clear identifying description. At minimum, a list of the key documents must be provided.
  • Prior testimony — prior deposition transcripts, sworn statements, or hearing testimony, if any (pasted or described). If none exists, state that explicitly.

If the matter identification, case theory, witness profile, or at least a summary of the documentary record is not provided, stop and request the missing information. Do not begin the outline. Do not fabricate any of these inputs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 5d ago First seen · 136 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A ff2b22f231cb

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Deposition Preparation is a skill published in the GitHub repository zgbrenner/agentcounsel (18 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,541 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 2026-09-03.

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