knowledge-work-legal

---
name: knowledge-work-legal
description: Use when an in-house legal team needs help with contract review, NDA triage, compliance workflows, legal briefs, or precedent research against a configured playbook.
source: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/legal
generated: 2026-07-02T18:42:30.516Z
category: concept
audience: general
---

## When to use

- Reviewing a vendor contract clause-by-clause against your organization's negotiation playbook and generating redlines
- Rapidly triaging an incoming NDA into approve / counsel-review / escalate buckets
- Checking existing agreements, DPAs, and expiration dates for a vendor across connected systems
- Preparing a daily legal brief or a research brief on a specific legal question

## Key concepts

### review-contract skill

Playbook-based contract analysis that classifies deviations, generates redline language, and flags clauses GREEN / YELLOW / RED with business-impact context.

### triage-nda skill

Screens incoming NDAs against standard criteria and routing rules, categorizing each as standard approval, counsel review, or significant-issue escalation.

### compliance-check skill

Covers privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA, DPA review, and data subject requests to keep processing workflows compliant.

### legal-risk-assessment skill

A risk severity framework with classification levels and escalation criteria for deciding what needs senior or outside counsel review.

### Configurable playbook

A legal.local.md file encodes your standard positions, acceptable ranges, and escalation triggers so review reflects your team's terms and risk tolerance.

### vendor-check and meeting-briefing skills

vendor-check reports existing NDAs/MSAs/DPAs and key terms for a vendor; meeting-briefing provides meeting prep, context gathering, and action-item tracking.

## API reference

```
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
```

Add Anthropic's knowledge-work plugin marketplace (one-time).

```
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
```

```
/plugin install legal@knowledge-work-plugins
```

Install the Legal plugin.

```
/plugin install legal@knowledge-work-plugins
```

## Gotchas

- This plugin assists with legal work but does not provide legal advice; AI analysis must be reviewed by a licensed attorney
- Default playbook examples reflect U.S. jurisdictions (Delaware, New York, California); customize legal.local.md for EU/UK/other systems before relying on it
- Without a configured playbook, contract review has no organization-specific positions to flag deviations against
- The plugin degrades gracefully when MCP tools are unavailable, noting gaps and suggesting manual checks rather than guessing
- Templated responses include built-in escalation triggers; some inquiry types should not receive a templated reply

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Generated by SkillMake from https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/legal on 2026-07-02T18:42:30.516Z.
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File: ~/.claude/skills/knowledge-work-legal/SKILL.md