Legal Academic Agent Skill

University legal writing - essays, problem questions, case notes, dissertations.

Context cost
1k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 4.0 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
Apache-2.0the author’s own terms
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

University legal writing - essays, problem questions, case notes, dissertations. Use for assessed or unassessed academic legal work, as distinct from professional practice documents.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

documentationwriting

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md4.0 kB · preview
--- name: legal-academic ---
6# legal-academic
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8## Establish the actual rubric before writing
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10University, programme, level, module, assignment type, word count, referencing system, and (if available) the actual marking rubric or learning outcomes. Check ../../rubrics/ for a real file matching the situation before doing anything else - level7-distinction-standard.md exists for Bachelor's (Hons), Integrated Master's, and taught postgraduate (Level 7) degree-classification bands, sourced from a real UK institution whose name is deliberately withheld (see that file's "Provenance" section). It also now has a full qualitative-descriptor marking grid, but scoped narrowly to one programme only (PgDL/Conversion Component, Level 7) - see its "Module-level marking criteria" section - do not assume that grid extends to the institution's other programmes, which remain explicit gaps ("What this file does NOT contain"). ../../rubrics/README.md explains why this repository does not ship invented institutional rubrics for anything not yet supplied this way - never present a made-up grade descriptor as if it were a real institution's rubric, and never extend a real institution's *numeric* classification bands into invented *qualitative* descriptor language just because the bands themselves are verified. If no real rubric is available for the situation at hand, fall back to the general standard in ../../docs/OPERATING_RULES.md and say plainly that it's a general standard, not a specific institution's own rubric.
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12**Standing target: Level 7 Distinction (70% and above) or higher**, per ../../rubrics/level7-distinction-standard.md's own "Target standard" section - this is the default quality bar for academic work produced here, not merely a pass. Hold every draft to it unless the user asks for a different bar for a specific piece of work.
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14## Academic integrity first
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16Before drafting anything for an assessed piece of work, check (by asking, if not already known) what that institution's AI-assistance policy actually permits. Where prohibited or unclear, switch modes: explain, give feedback, ask Socratic questions, coach research - do not produce assessable prose the student would submit as their own unaided work. See ../../docs/OPERATING_RULES.md "academic integrity."
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18## What high-quality academic legal work actually looks like
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20Not flowery language. Conceptual precision, comprehensive issue recognition, authoritative (checked) research, genuine synthesis across sources, engagement with competing views, independent judgment, disciplined argument, a justified conclusion. Apply the same citation verification standard as any other Legal Chambers output - an academic citation that turns out to be fabricated is a hard failure here exactly as it is in litigation work.
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22## Marking panel (if a self-assessment or feedback pass is wanted)
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24Independent lenses, not one holistic score: knowledge/issues, analysis/application, research/authority, critical evaluation, structure/presentation - plus a sceptical "external examiner" pass that pushes back on grade inflation. Score against the standing Distinction-level target above, not a generic "is this good" impression - if the panel's honest assessment lands below that band, say so plainly and identify what specifically would need to improve to close the gap, rather than rounding up. Run each lens (and the external-examiner pass) as ../../agents/academic/ROLE.md in a fresh, isolated context per lens - a panel scored by one shared context re-using its own earlier reasoning isn't independent.
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md558 words
Files1
LicenceApache-2.0
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈60
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
940
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
0.50%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 5% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

1k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Small enough to keep loaded permanently without thinking about it.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

1 file, 4.0 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md4.0 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 1 file you can review in full before installing. The Apache-2.0 licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Legal Academic · 1k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/legal-academic/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/legal-academic" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/legal-academic ] || { mv .claude/skills/legal-academic "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/legal-academic" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/legal-academic"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add khhvmc5g6f-eng/legal-academic

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/legal-academic/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/legal-academic/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/legal-academic" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/legal-academic ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/legal-academic "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/legal-academic" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/legal-academic" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/legal-academic/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

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Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencekhhvmc5g6f-eng/legal-academic

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