Privacy Cold-Start Interview

Privacy Cold-Start Interview is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zgbrenner/agentcounsel. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,891 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured interview for a privacy legal team setting up its practice profile in AgentCounsel. It records the team's jurisdictions, standard positions, review rules, and limits for the system to follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps onboard or rebuild a privacy practice profile by gathering client context, escalation thresholds, source documents, output preferences, and prohibited assumptions.
Why use it?
It collects the team's working rules in one consistent draft, reducing missing information and unclear assumptions during setup. An attorney must review and approve the result.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps onboard or rebuild a privacy practice profile by gathering client context, escalation thresholds, source documents, output preferences, and prohibited assumptions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zgbrenner/agentcounsel/privacy-cold-start-interview
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 privacy-cold-start-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zgbrenner/agentcounsel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,891 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 $0.00054 $0.02891
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01445
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00578
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00289

Measured 8d ago against content hash 02ad9bccd8be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Privacy Cold-Start Interview 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 8d 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/setup/privacy-cold-start-interview/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Privacy Cold-Start Interview

Purpose

Conduct a structured, staged interview with a privacy practice group — led by a supervising attorney or authorized designee — to gather the information required to populate practice-profiles/privacy.md. The skill walks through all eight profile fields in sequence, records every answer, and assembles a filled draft of the profile for the practice group's review and approval. It produces draft legal work product for attorney review — not legal advice and not a final configuration.

Use When

  • A team is adopting AgentCounsel and needs to configure practice-profiles/privacy.md for the first time.
  • A privacy practice group is being onboarded to the library and no current profile exists.
  • The library is being stood up for the first time and the privacy area is included in scope.
  • A practice group wishes to revisit or rebuild its profile from scratch rather than make incremental updates.

Required Inputs

  • A knowledgeable person from the privacy practice group — a supervising attorney or an authorized designee — who can answer questions about the group's jurisdictional scope, controller/processor default posture, breach-notification stance, transfer positions, and review requirements.
  • Any existing privacy policies, data-processing agreements, breach-response playbooks, records of processing activities, or data-mapping documents the group already uses, so they can be referenced or cited in the profile.

Do Not Use When

  • The group is actively responding to a live privacy incident, breach, or regulatory inquiry. This skill configures the library; it does not support an open matter.
  • A practice-profiles/privacy.md already exists and is current. In that case this is a refresh, not a cold start — though the skill may still be used to rebuild the profile deliberately.
  • No authorized person is available to answer. Do not complete the interview with guessed or inferred answers; record all gaps as [CONFIRM: ...] placeholders.
  • The purpose is to draft a privacy notice, a data-processing agreement, or a breach notification for a specific matter (use the appropriate matter-level skill for that task).

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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. 8d ago First seen · 181 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 02ad9bccd8be

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Privacy Cold-Start Interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository zgbrenner/agentcounsel (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,891 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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