About legal-verified-research-memo
A skill for producing legal and regulatory research memos when citation reliability matters. It prioritizes primary authority and links key claims to fetched sources or labels them uncertain, with confidence flags and practical recommendations.
Key features
- 01Claim-level source verification
- 02Primary-authority priority
- 03Confidence flags
- 04Structured memo with recommendations
Use cases
- 01Researching a legal question in a specified jurisdiction
- 02Preparing a regulatory research memo with checked citations
- 03Flagging uncertain claims when sources are unavailable
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ cowork-os/ cowork-os --skill legal-verified-research-memoAfter installing, type/legal-verified-research-memoin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project READMELegal Verified Research Memo
Purpose
Generate a legal research memo with claim-level source verification, confidence flags, and primary-authority priority.
Routing
- Use when: Use for legal/regulatory research memos where citation reliability is critical.
- Do not use when: Do not use for contract redline workflows that are primarily document-editing tasks.
- Outputs: Structured memo with verified citations, confidence flags, and practical recommendations.
- Success criteria: Every key claim is linked to a fetched source or clearly labeled uncertain.
Trigger Examples
Positive
- Use the legal-verified-research-memo skill for this request.
- Help me with legal verified research memo.
- Use for legal/regulatory research memos where citation reliability is critical.
- Legal Verified Research Memo: provide an actionable result.
Negative
- Do not use for contract redline workflows that are primarily document-editing tasks.
- Do not use legal-verified-research-memo for unrelated requests.
- This request is outside legal verified research memo scope.
- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| question | string | Yes | Legal question to research |
| jurisdictions | string | No | Jurisdiction scope |
| output_report_path | string | No | Where to write the research memo |
Runtime Prompt
- Current runtime prompt length: 1212 characters.
- Runtime prompt is defined directly in
../legal-verified-research-memo.json.
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