plain-language-letters

plain-language-letters is a skill for Claude Code from zhou210712/claude-for-legal-ZH. It costs 60 tokens per session (216 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A retired plain-language letter tool that redirects routine letters to one tool and substantive client updates to another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use the replacement client-letter tool for routine messages and the client-facing status tool for meaningful case updates.
Why use it?
It prevents users from relying on an outdated workflow after the original tool was split into more focused parts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the legal-clinic plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use the replacement client-letter tool for routine messages and the client-facing status tool for meaningful case updates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhou210712/claude-for-legal-zh/plain-language-letters
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 zhou210712/claude-for-legal-ZH --skill plain-language-letters
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhou210712/claude-for-legal-ZH

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install legal-clinic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for plain-language-letters

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zhou210712/claude-for-legal-zh/plain-language-letters/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zhou210712/claude-for-legal-zh/plain-language-letters)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zhou210712/claude-for-legal-zh/plain-language-letters"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zhou210712/claude-for-legal-zh/plain-language-letters/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for plain-language-letters

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zhou210712/claude-for-legal-zh/plain-language-letters"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zhou210712/claude-for-legal-zh/plain-language-letters.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 216 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 $0.00060 $0.00216
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00086
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00022

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ddbca97580f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plain-language-letters 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 1mo 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.

legal-clinic/skills/plain-language-letters/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

[已弃用] 通俗语言信函 → 参见 /client-letter 和 /status client

本技能在 v2 重构中已拆分:

  • 常规信函(预约确认、文件索取、简要"已提交"更新) → skills/client-letter/ — 使用 /client-letter [类型]

  • 实质性当事人状态更新 → skills/status/ 当事人面向模式 — 使用 /status client

两者均适用 CLAUDE.md 中的通俗语言标准(阅读水平、无法律术语)。

完整工作流见各 SKILL.md 文件。

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. 1mo ago First seen · 20 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A ddbca97580f2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plain-language-letters is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhou210712/claude-for-legal-ZH (238 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 216 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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