cocounsel-legal

Claude for Legal

Reference agents, skills, and data connectors for the legal workflows we see most — in-house commercial, privacy, product, corporate, employment, litigation, regulatory, AI governance, IP, and the learning side of the practice (law school clinics and students).

New here? Start with QUICKSTART.md — install in 60 seconds. This README is the full reference.

Everything here is available two ways from one source: install it as a Claude Cowork or Claude Code plugin, or deploy it through the Claude Managed Agents API behind your own workflow engine. Same system prompt, same skills — you choose where it runs.

[!IMPORTANT] Every output from these plugins is a draft for attorney review — not legal advice, not a legal conclusion, not a substitute for a lawyer. They are built with guardrails that reflect that: source attribution on every citation, conservative defaults on privilege and subjective legal calls, jurisdiction assumptions surfaced, and explicit gates before anything is filed, sent, or relied on. A lawyer reviews, verifies, and takes professional responsibility for anything that leaves the building. These plugins make that review faster; they do not replace it.

These plugins do not represent Anthropic's legal positions. They are tools that help lawyers analyze issues. Where a skill includes a checklist item, a suggested framework, a risk flag, or a characterization of case law or regulatory guidance, that is an aid to the reviewing attorney's own analysis, not a statement of Anthropic's view of the law. The law in many of these areas is unsettled and evolving. The attorney using the plugin — not the plugin, and not Anthropic — is responsible for the legal positions taken in their work product.

What's in the repo:

• Practice-area plugins covering in-house, firm, and academic legal work — each one built around a cold-start interview that learns your playbook and a CLAUDE.md practice profile that every skill reads from.
• Managed-agent cookbooks for the scheduled, eyes-on-the-feed workflows (renewal watcher, docket watcher, regulatory feed monitor, diligence grid, launch radar).
• MCP connectors across general productivity (Slack, Google Drive, Box) and legal-specific systems (Ironclad, DocuSign, iManage, Lexis+, Everlaw, CourtListener, and more).
• Named agents — end-to-end workflow agents (Vendor Agreement Reviewer, DSAR Responder, Termination Reviewer, Claim Chart Builder, …) with job-style names and a single command to run each one.

Agents

Each agent is named for the workflow it runs. They're the most common surface — start with the ones that match your work, then tune the underlying skill, the practice profile, and the connectors to how your team does it.

Agent	What it does	Plugin	Command
Vendor Agreement Reviewer	Reviews a vendor MSA against your playbook and produces a redline memo	commercial-legal	/commercial-legal:review
NDA Triager	GREEN/YELLOW/RED triage of inbound NDAs so only the hard ones hit a lawyer's desk	commercial-legal	/commercial-legal:review
Amendment Tracer	Traces how a contract has changed across its base agreement and every amendment	commercial-legal	/commercial-legal:amendment-history
Renewal Watcher	Scans the contract register for cancel-by and renewal deadlines	commercial-legal	scheduled agent
Deal Debrief	Weekly sweep of signed agreements with playbook deviations — prompts the attorney to log context while memory is fresh	commercial-legal	scheduled agent
Playbook Monitor	Watches the deviation log and proposes playbook updates when a clause has drifted	commercial-legal	scheduled agent
Escalation Router	Routes contract issues to the right approver and drafts the ask	commercial-legal	/commercial-legal:escalation-flagger
Tabular Diligence Review	Tabular review over a data room with one row per document and every cell cited	corporate-legal	/corporate-legal:tabular-review
Issue Extractor	Reads VDR documents and extracts issues per house categories and materiality thresholds	corporate-legal	/corporate-legal:diligence-issue-extraction
Board Consent Drafter	Drafts unanimous written consents in house format with precedent search	corporate-legal	/corporate-legal:written-consent
Material Contracts Schedule Builder	Builds the disclosure schedule from diligence findings against the purchase-agreement threshold	corporate-legal	/corporate-legal:material-contract-schedule
Entity Compliance Tracker	Computes filing deadlines across jurisdictions and entity types, runs health audits	corporate-legal	/corporate-legal:entity-compliance