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
Awesome Legal Skills (Lawve) Claude skills
A curated, contributor-written library of about 280 legal agent skills (contracts, GDPR, litigation, AI Act) in English, French, Italian and more.
Our verdict Recommended with caveats
A large and useful catalog, but it is many authors' work under different licenses, so check each skill's license and quality before use.
What Awesome Legal Skills (Lawve) does
Awesome Legal Skills is a directory repo synced from lawve.ai, where practicing lawyers, in-house counsel and academics submit skills. The repository holds roughly 280 skill folders under skills/, listed in the README by area: AI governance, banking and finance, commercial and corporate law, compliance, data protection, employment, immigration, intellectual property, litigation, public law, sanctions and trade, legal drafting and skill authoring. Entries carry a language flag, and many are in French or Italian as well as English. The skills are long: SKILL.md files average about 17 KB and some run past 80 KB, and many have reference folders. A smaller number include Python scripts, for example citation formatting, bibliography generation and queries to public APIs such as HAL and Gallica, and a few ship templates or tests. Examples include an EU AI Act classifier and obligations mapper, a GDPR DPA analysis in French, arbitration-clause review, a sanctions screening adjudicator and a skill that screens other skills before installation. Submissions get a manual review for practical value and security concerns before they are synced.
Good for
- Lawyers and legal-ops teams looking for ready-made skills in a specific practice area or jurisdiction
- Studying how practitioners structure legal workflows for agents
Not for
- Anyone wanting a single tested toolkit (quality and style vary by author)
- Relying on output as legal advice without a lawyer's review
What's inside depth 3/5
About 280 skills averaging 17 KB of instructions, many with reference folders and some with Python scripts and tests, but quality varies by contributor and only 23 eval files exist in the repo.
- Skills
- 281
- Reference docs
- 1324
- Scripts
- 296
- Tests / evals
- 142
- Templates
- 135
- Avg SKILL.md
- 17 KB
Counted from the repository file tree. How we score depth.
Dependencies and costs
- Per-skill: some use public APIs (HAL, Gallica) via Python scripts
- Python 3 for skills that ship scripts
Security review
Broad accessThis skill asks for more access than most, or sends data to another service. That is usually a design choice rather than bad intent, but you should know before you install it.
- Pre-approves broad shell commandsallowed-tools lists plain
Bash(unrestricted shell) with Read, Edit and Write; argentine-supreme-court-analysis-adrian-lerer does the same with WebFetch.skills/billable-time-stephane-boghossian/SKILL.md:21
A community collection of legal skills (about 40 folders in our files) that are mostly instructions and reference material, with a handful of Python/Node helpers. Two skills pre-approve unrestricted Bash, one reads your Claude Code session logs locally to draft time entries, and the research helpers call public scholarly APIs. A large part of the repository was not available to us, so this is a partial review.
Worth knowing
- Makes network requestsLegal-research scripts call public scholarly and library APIs (HAL, OpenAlex, Crossref, Isidore, Gallica/BnF) with your search terms and check links with HEAD/GET requests; no API keys were found.skills/assistant-juridique-christophe-quezel-ambrunaz/scripts/doctrine_search.py:74
- Relies on a CLI or package we could not reviewThe citable skill shells out to poppler (pdftotext, pdftoppm) and tesseract and uses the pdfplumber package on case PDFs you point it at; those tools are not in the repository.skills/citable-cameron-russell/scripts/inventory.py:18
- Contains compiled binariesA gzip-compressed sentence-splitter model ships inside the vendored nupunkt library and cannot be read as text.skills/citable-cameron-russell/scripts/vendor/nupunkt/models/default_model.json.gz:1
What we checked
The repository (3189 files) on Oct 29, 2026. Not a full review: 2680 of 3189 files were not downloaded (large repository; we reviewed the skill folders); it contains compiled binaries or archives we cannot read; we read 1 of 60 code files; it relies on code outside the repository: poppler-utils, tesseract and the pdfplumber/librosa-style Python packages used by the citable and other skills; 2680 of 3189 repository files were not available to us (marketplace manifest, reference corpora, many skill folders); most of the 60 listed code files were not read in full: about 50 are a vendored copy of the nupunkt library (searched for network, subprocess and dynamic-import use, none found), plus the larger Python and Node helpers (build_table.py, verify_links.py, generate_site.py, draft-entries.mjs).
NVIDIA SkillSpector static scan: 154 pattern hits (Excessive Agency 77, Data Exfiltration 33, Dangerous Code Execution 13, Anti-Refusal 8, Privilege Escalation 6, YARA Match 4). The repository is mostly legal prompts and reference texts from many contributors. Dossier hits are docs (curl examples against the HAL API, 'Secretary' and 'password' words inside statutes and standards), Python urllib calls to public research APIs, and a gzip model file in the vendored nupunkt package.
A review, not a certification. Skills change after we check them — read the files before installing.
License
Mixed. The list itself is CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Each skill has its own license (Apache-2.0, AGPL-3.0, CC BY 4.0 and MIT appear in the frontmatter we sampled); check the skill before reusing it commercially.
Can it run unattended?
Not really. Skills are drafting and review workflows with clarifying questions and human judgment, not unattended loops.
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FAQ
What is Awesome Legal Skills by Lawve?
A curated repository of agent skills for legal work, synced from lawve.ai, with about 280 skills submitted by lawyers and legal technologists across practice areas such as contracts, data protection, litigation and AI regulation.
How do I install a skill from awesome-legal-skills?
Copy or install the skill folder you want from the skills/ directory into your agent's skills location, for example with the skills CLI or by cloning the repo. There is no single bundle, so pick skills individually.
Are the legal skills safe and can I use them commercially?
The maintainers say each submission is manually reviewed, but licenses differ per skill. The index is CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, and individual skills use licenses such as Apache-2.0, AGPL-3.0, CC BY 4.0 or MIT, so read the one you plan to use.
Can these skills replace a lawyer?
No. They encode workflows written by individual practitioners and can be incomplete or out of date for your jurisdiction. Treat output as a draft for professional review.
Sources: GitHub repository (stars, license, file tree, last push Oct 19, 2026). Review based on the README and SKILL.md files as published.