Claude for Legal
anthropics/claude-for-legalAnthropic's suite of legal-workflow plugins: 151 skills across in-house practice areas, each driven by a cold-start interview and a practice profile.
With caveats
Check first Depth 2/5
Claude für deutsches Recht Claude skills
An experimental German-language collection of legal plugins, skills and prompts for German law, with test case files; the repo reports about 19,000 skill files.
Our verdict Recommended with caveats
Broad and openly licensed for German law, but the author calls it an experiment, the skills are short and heavily overlapping, and the volume makes quality uneven.
What Claude für deutsches Recht does
This repository is a very large collection of plugins, skills, stand-alone markdown prompts and practice case files for German legal work. The README (in German, with an English quick guide) describes plugins by practice area, such as contract and standard-terms law (AGB, sections 305 ff. BGB), corporate and M&A, bank legal departments, tax, freedom-of-information requests, venture capital investors, law-firm management and a plugin for checking contracts with legal-AI vendors against professional secrecy rules (section 203 StGB, section 43e BRAO). You can install one plugin, use a single prompt as a markdown file, or import the marketplace file into ChatGPT or Cowork.
The skill folders we sampled are short, about 2 to 6 KB each, with no references or scripts, and many have narrow, overlapping topics (for example several variants on AGB assignment clauses and adversarial tests). The dossier counts 18,988 skills and over 30,000 files, so installing everything is neither necessary nor sensible; the README itself says one plugin or prompt is enough to start. A quality section separates structural checks from model tests that were actually run, and the repo holds about 310 evaluation files. Separate test case files with PDFs let you practice without client material.
The author labels it an experiment and not legal advice, says results may be wrong or out of date, and flags confidentiality and data-transfer issues for lawyers.
Good for
- German-speaking lawyers and in-house counsel exploring agent-assisted drafting and review
- Trying a single practice-area plugin with the provided test case files
- Developers studying how a large domain skill collection can be structured
Not for
- Anyone who cannot verify German legal output themselves
- Installing the whole collection at once; it is far too large and overlapping
What's inside depth 2/5
About 19,000 skill folders averaging 5 KB of instructions with no scripts or references in the sampled folders; hundreds of eval files exist, but breadth does not add depth.
- Skills
- 18988
- Reference docs
- 11
- Scripts
- 0
- Tests / evals
- 310
- Templates
- 0
- Avg SKILL.md
- 4.9 KB
Counted from the repository file tree. How we score depth.
Dependencies and costs
- Claude Code, Cowork or ChatGPT plugin import for plugins; none for stand-alone markdown prompts
Security review
Review before installingA very large collection of German-law skills and prompts, almost entirely Markdown instructions for contract, labour, data-protection and procedural work. The files we have contain no scripts, allowed-tools pre-approvals, network calls or credential handling. The repository is far larger than what we could review (thousands of plugin folders, scripts and ZIP archives were not available), so this is a partial review of the Markdown only.
Worth knowing
- Contains compiled binariesThe repository contains over a thousand binary files (ZIP bundles of sample case files and similar downloads) that we cannot read.arbeitsrecht-kuendigungsschutzklagewerkstatt/testakte/downloads/testakte-arbeitsrecht-kuendigung-betriebsbedingt-leipzig.zip:1
What we checked
The repository (30603 files) on Oct 29, 2026. Not a full review: the repository is too large for a complete file list; 30435 of 30603 files were not downloaded (large repository; we reviewed the skill folders); it contains compiled binaries or archives we cannot read; it relies on code outside the repository: 30435 of 30603 repository files were not available to us, including about 944 code files (release and validation scripts such as scripts/validate-plugin-structure.mjs and sync-references.py, GitHub workflows) and 1135 binary/archive files.
NVIDIA SkillSpector static scan: 0 pattern hits. SkillSpector reported no hits on the 168 files we had; the 'credentials' and 'telemetry' grep lines are German legal text about cookie consent (Planet49) and a package description. The only fenced shell commands in the README are repo maintenance scripts (node validators, python sync script, git clone and claude plugin marketplace add .).
A review, not a certification. Skills change after we check them — read the files before installing.
License
Dual-licensed Apache-2.0 OR MIT at the user's choice — commercial use allowed.
Can it run unattended?
Not really. These are interactive drafting and review prompts that expect a lawyer's questions and checks.
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FAQ
What is claude-fuer-deutsches-recht?
It is a German-language collection of plugins, skills and prompts for German legal practice, covering areas such as contract and AGB law, corporate, tax and information-freedom law. The author calls it an experiment and says it is not legal advice.
How do I install it?
You do not need the whole collection. Pick one plugin and follow the INSTALLATION_EINFACH.md guide, or download a single workshop or mini prompt as markdown. The README also describes importing the marketplace file into ChatGPT workspaces or Cowork.
Is it safe to use with client data?
The files are markdown and do not run code, but the README warns about professional secrecy under German law and about transferring client data to US services. Check your own confidentiality obligations before uploading real matter documents.
Claude für deutsches Recht vs Claude for Legal: which should I use?
Claude für deutsches Recht targets German law and is in German. Anthropic's Claude for Legal is a smaller, interview-driven suite for in-house and law-firm workflows, framed around US-style practice areas and connectors.
Sources: GitHub repository (stars, license, file tree, last push Oct 23, 2026). Review based on the README and SKILL.md files as published.