About expansion-update
A Claude skill for updating an open employment-law expansion tracker. It applies status changes, checks dependencies for newly unblocked items, flags overdue work, and identifies next priorities.
Key features
- 01Updates tracker item statuses
- 02Checks newly unblocked work
- 03Flags overdue open items
- 04Surfaces next priorities
Use cases
- 01Update a country's expansion plan after new developments
- 02Identify work made actionable by completed dependencies
- 03Review overdue items and upcoming priorities
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ anthropics/ claude-for-legal --skill expansion-updateAfter installing, type/expansion-updatein Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project README/expansion-update
Returns to an open expansion tracker and updates item status based on what has happened since the last session. Recalculates what is now unblocked, flags anything overdue, and surfaces the next priorities.
Instructions
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Load
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md. -
Identify the tracker file:
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/expansion-[slug].yaml. If it doesn't exist, respond: "No expansion tracker found for [country]. Run/employment-legal:expansion-kickoff [country]to start one." -
Read the tracker. Show the current state:
[Country] Expansion — last updated [date]
Open: [N] | In progress: [N] | Done: [N] | Blocked: [N]
Next priorities (open items with earliest due dates or highest-dependency):
[item] — owner: [owner]
[item] — owner: [owner]
[item] — owner: [owner]
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Ask for updates in a single prompt — do not ask about each item one by one:
Which items have moved since we last looked? Tell me what's changed (e.g., "EOR decision made — going with Deel", "outside counsel engaged — call scheduled for Thursday", "PE analysis still open, waiting on tax"). You can also add new items or change due dates.
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Apply updates to the tracker file. For any item newly marked
done, check whether it unblocks other items and flag those as now actionable. -
If any item has a due date that has passed and is still
openorin-progress, flag it:
⚠️ Overdue: [item] — was due [date], owner: [owner]
- Write the updated tracker. Confirm:
Tracker updated — [N] items closed, [N] still open.
Next priority: [top open item].
Examples
/employment-legal:expansion-update Germany
/employment-legal:expansion-update
(will ask which country if multiple trackers exist)
Detailed tracker schema, item-status rules, and dependency logic live in the
international-expansionreference skill — load it before doing substantive work.