Legal Hold

Legal Hold is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zgbrenner/agentcounsel. It costs 46 tokens per session (3,152 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A draft litigation hold notice and preservation summary. A litigation hold tells people and systems to preserve potentially relevant records when a legal matter requires them to be kept.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for issuing, refreshing, or releasing a hold; identifying custodians and data systems; and preparing clear preservation instructions for review.
Why use it?
It helps communicate what information, date ranges, custodians, and systems must be preserved. It also helps update or release an existing hold, subject to attorney approval.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for issuing, refreshing, or releasing a hold; identifying custodians and data systems; and preparing clear preservation instructions for review.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,152 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 $0.00046 $0.03152
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01576
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00630
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00315

Measured 9d ago against content hash a74b5212bd43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Legal Hold 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.

skills/litigation/legal-hold/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Produce a structured draft litigation hold notice and preservation-scope summary for attorney review. The skill supports three modes: issue (a new hold), refresh (update scope, custodians, or date range on an existing hold), and release (lift a hold when the matter closes). It organizes the preservation scope, identifies custodians and the systems they use, flags departed custodians whose data requires system-level preservation, and drafts a notice that communicates clearly to recipients what they must preserve, how, and why. It does not decide whether a duty to preserve has been triggered — that is a legal determination the attorney must make before this skill is used. The draft notice must not be distributed to custodians without attorney review and approval.

Use When

  • An attorney has determined that a duty to preserve has been triggered and needs a first-draft hold notice to send to custodians.
  • A prior hold must be refreshed because the scope has changed, additional custodians have been identified, the date range has expanded, or new systems are in scope.
  • A matter has closed and counsel needs a draft hold-release notice confirming that preservation obligations have lifted.
  • The attorney wants a preservation-scope summary alongside the notice to document what was covered and why.

Required Inputs

For all modes:

  • Matter identification — name, number, or brief description sufficient to identify the matter.
  • Trigger event — the event that prompted the hold (e.g., receipt of a complaint, a threat of litigation, a regulatory inquiry). The attorney must have already determined that this event triggers a preservation duty; this skill does not make that determination.
  • Preservation scope — the categories of documents, communications, and data to be preserved (e.g., contracts, correspondence, financial records, project files, metadata).
  • Named custodians — the individuals who may possess responsive information, with their roles or titles. Identify any departed custodians separately.
  • Date range — the start date and end date (or "ongoing") for responsive material. The attorney must supply these dates; this skill does not compute or assert a trigger date.
  • Systems in scope — the platforms, applications, and devices from which material must be preserved (e.g., email, chat and messaging tools, file-share and cloud-storage platforms, devices, CRM systems, legacy or archival systems, voicemail).
  • Effective date of the hold — the date on which the preservation obligation begins. Provided by the attorney; do not compute.

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 9d ago First seen · 157 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A a74b5212bd43

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Legal Hold is a skill published in the GitHub repository zgbrenner/agentcounsel (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 3,152 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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