Subpoena Triage

Subpoena Triage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zgbrenner/agentcounsel. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,440 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured first review of a subpoena, which is a formal demand for documents, information, or testimony issued by an authority such as a court or government body. It summarizes the deadline, requested material, possible objections, privilege concerns, preservation duties, and internal notifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for triaging an incoming subpoena, identifying who should respond, locating relevant records, and preparing questions for counsel.
Why use it?
It helps a legal team quickly understand what the subpoena requires and what needs immediate attention. It highlights the deadline and issues that must be verified by an attorney.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for triaging an incoming subpoena, identifying who should respond, locating relevant records, and preparing questions for counsel.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,440 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 $0.00045 $0.03440
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01720
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00688
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00344

Measured 7d ago against content hash 69f75634afa7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Subpoena Triage 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 7d 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/subpoena-triage/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.

Subpoena Triage

Purpose

Produce a structured triage summary for an incoming subpoena requiring prompt attorney evaluation. The skill identifies the subpoena type, issuing authority, compliance deadline, scope of what is demanded, the recipient's status (party or non-party), potential objections, privilege and preservation obligations, and who must be notified internally. The compliance deadline is flagged as time-critical — attorney must verify it immediately. This skill produces draft legal work product for attorney review — not legal advice and not a response or objection to the subpoena.

CRITICAL: Subpoena compliance deadlines are strictly enforced and may be very short (sometimes 3–14 days). The attorney must verify the deadline immediately upon receiving this triage summary. Do not rely on any deadline noted here without independent attorney verification.

Use When

  • A subpoena has been received by the client, the organization, or a custodian of records and triage is needed.
  • A user asks to "triage this subpoena," "we got a subpoena, what do we do," or "review this subpoena."
  • Counsel needs to quickly identify objection grounds, privilege issues, and internal notification obligations when a subpoena arrives.
  • An organization needs a structured process for handling subpoenas received in connection with third-party litigation.
  • A non-party has been served and needs to evaluate its obligations before a compliance deadline runs.

Required Inputs

  • The full text of the subpoena (uploaded or pasted). Do not triage from a description alone — the actual subpoena must be reviewed.
  • The identity of the recipient: who was served (the individual, entity, or custodian of records).
  • Whether the recipient is a party to the underlying litigation or a non-party third party.
  • The date of service (to evaluate the compliance deadline — attorney must verify the computation).

If the subpoena text is not provided, stop and request it. Do not complete a triage without reviewing the actual subpoena.

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 7d ago First seen · 157 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 69f75634afa7

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Subpoena Triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository zgbrenner/agentcounsel (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,440 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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