research-start

research-start is a skill for Claude Code from zhou210712/claude-for-legal-ZH. It costs 98 tokens per session (2,780 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of client-intake, Apache-2.0.

A starting-point guide for legal research that identifies laws, case-law topics, secondary sources, and search terms to investigate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to frame a legal question, find relevant rules and case areas, review clinic-provided reference files, and identify gaps in existing research.
Why use it?
It helps students begin with a focused research route instead of searching broadly without knowing where to look.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

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

Good fit Use it to frame a legal question, find relevant rules and case areas, review clinic-provided reference files, and identify gaps in existing research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhou210712/claude-for-legal-zh/research-start
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 research-start
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.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,780 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00098 $0.02780
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01390
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00556
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00278

Measured 9d ago against content hash 32fb9dccc923, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-start 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to client-intake — 264 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

legal-clinic/skills/research-start/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/research-start

  1. 加载 ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → 管辖地、实践领域。
  2. 使用以下工作流。
  3. 具体界定问题。构建路线图:法条起手点(未核实)、案例法领域(非具体案例)、二次文献来源、检索关键词。
  4. 如学生已上传已有检索成果:综合并识别缺口。
  5. 输出前置显著的"线索非权威"标题。一切都是学生核实的起手点。
/legal-clinic:research-start "[省份]房屋租赁中以丧失居住条件为由的抗辩"

检索起手:路线图,非具体检索结论

目的

法律检索是诊所教育的核心组成部分。但初始阶段——弄清楚要检索什么、找到正确的法条、理解框架——往往是最耗时且教育价值最低的部分。学生花数小时找到起手点,然后才能做实际的检索工作。

本技能产出起手点:需查阅的法条、需调查的案例法领域、北大法宝和法信的检索关键词。这些全部未经核实。全部非权威。全部是学生去深入追查的线索。

这既是教学保障,也是伦理保障。 学生仍然学习检索。他们只是从一个更好的地方开始。

加载上下文

~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → 管辖地(省份)、实践领域。

工作流

第0步:优先种子文件

在构建路线图之前,阅读诊所自己的种子文件。 指导老师在冷启动时上传(手册、提交指南、本地法院规则、接待表格、示例案件文件、既往备忘录)——它们是预先经过审查的、管辖地特定的,在学生检索的前20分钟比任何数据库查询都更有价值。

  1. 读取 ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md## 种子文件。识别任何目的或文件名与检索领域匹配的项目。
  2. 对每个匹配项,将其呈现为路线图输出顶部的优先阅读的种子文件块。命名文件,说明它为什么与这个具体问题相关,并说明它可能涵盖什么 vs. 仍需外部检索的地方。
  3. 如果没有种子文件匹配该问题,直说("无诊所种子文件匹配本问题——直接进入一手来源")。不要编造匹配。
  4. 如果诊所有 LIMITED DATA 标记,添加一行说明。

路线图仍涵盖法条、案例法领域、二次文献来源和检索关键词——种子文件是第一线索,而非替换其余部分。但先呈现它们,让学生从指导老师的先例起点出发。

第1步:界定问题

检索问题是什么?要具体。不是"房屋租赁抗辩"——而是"[省份]以丧失居住条件为由对欠租驱逐的抗辩,具体而言,暖气坏了是否构成,以及承租人是否需要提前书面通知出租人。"

如果问题太宽泛,与学生一起缩小:"那是三个检索问题。我们一个一个来。先处理哪个?"

第2步:构建路线图

法条起手点: 列出可能相关的法条。明确说明这些是可能的,非已确认。

可能相关的法条(未核实——确认现行效力和适用性):

  • 《民法典》合同编/物权编相关条款——查找"租赁合同""维修义务"
  • [省份/城市]房屋租赁管理条例——可能界定具体条件(供暖、供水)
  • [核实每条引注的现行效力和准确性——法条可能已被修订]

案例法领域待调查: 不是具体案例——是领域。学生找到案例。

案例法领域:

  • [省份]高级人民法院或中级人民法院关于租赁合同纠纷的判决——查找确立裁判规则的典型案例
  • 什么条件构成丧失居住条件的案例——具体而言关于供暖的案例
  • 程序性先决条件的案例——承租人是否需要提前通知?是否需要将租金提存?
  • 救济措施的案例——抵扣欠租,还是另行主张损害赔偿?

行政监管来源: 如适用(行政纠纷尤其):

行政来源:

  • [行政机关]规章
  • 行政指导意见或政策手册——通常比法规更及时

用于建立框架的二次文献来源: 在深入一级文献之前获得框架的地方。

二次文献来源(用于建立框架,非引用):

  • [省份]房地产法律实务手册(查阅诊所图书室)
  • 相关继续教育培训材料(CLE)
  • 如该具体问题存在争议,查阅法学核心期刊文章

检索关键词: 用于北大法宝、法信或诊所使用的其他检索系统。

建议尝试的检索词:

  • 北大法宝:"居住条件" /s "供暖" & [省份]
  • 中国裁判文书网:居住条件 AND 供暖 AND [省份]
  • 法信:租赁合同 解除 居住条件
  • 根据返回结果细化——这些是起手查询

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 9d ago First seen · 193 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 32fb9dccc923

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research-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhou210712/claude-for-legal-ZH (212 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 2,780 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to client-intake, differing in 264 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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