Updated 2d ago
by danepps
legal-research-skills
Claude Code and Codex CLI skills for legal scholarship: verified research memos, cite-checking, proofreading, Zotero library building, SCOTUS case prep
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- 11 skills (11 skills found in its SKILL.md files)
- 9 forks (9 forks)
- 2d ago last update (Last updated 2d ago)
Install
Skills CLI
npx skills add danepps/legal-research-skills
Asks which skills and agents to install. Just one: npx skills add danepps/legal-research-skills --skill build-zotero-library — add -g for every project.
Claude Code
git clone https://github.com/danepps/legal-research-skillscp -r "legal-research-skills/codex/build-zotero-library" ~/.claude/skills/
Copies the build-zotero-library skill into ~/.claude/skills/ for every project (use .claude/skills/ for one project). Repeat for the other skills listed below.
Plugin
/plugin marketplace add danepps/legal-research-skills
Run inside Claude Code if the repository ships a plugin marketplace, then pick plugins from /plugin.
Skills can run code on your machine — read the SKILL.md first.
What it does
In the author's own words, from each skill's SKILL.md.
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build-zotero-library
Build or extend a verified Zotero collection for a research project, including attached full-text PDFs when requested. Use when the user asks Codex to build, populate, curate, or add sources or PDFs to a Zotero library or collection; gather books, articles, cases, reports, or other research sources into Zotero; attach open-access PDFs or files the user supplies; or audit newly added Zotero items…
codex/build-zotero-library/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
cite-check
Verify legal citations, quotations, pincites, proposition support, cross-references, source versions, and URLs in draft scholarship or legal writing. Use when Codex is asked to cite-check, source-check, quote-check, validate footnotes, audit authorities, find broken Id. or supra chains, check a legal article before submission, or produce a footnote-by-footnote verification report from a .docx, Ma…
codex/cite-check/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
deep-research
Run a resumable, source-grounded investigation from the CLI or a Codex terminal workflow. Use for broad, current, external, literature, policy, technical, market, empirical, systematic/scoping-review, legal, historical, comparative, or scholarly questions that need explicit scope, iterative search, evidence tracking, contradiction checks, citations, budgets, reusable artifacts, and coverage-direc…
codex/deep-research/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
find-cite
Find a small set of verified, footnote-ready authorities for one legal, doctrinal, scholarly, historical, or empirical proposition. Use when the user asks for a cite, authority, source, canonical case, supporting article, pincite, footnote filler, or support for a particular sentence or claim. Return a concise ranked answer rather than a research memo; route broad synthesis, many propositions, or…
codex/find-cite/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
internal-proofread
Proofread long legal, scholarly, academic, policy, or professional drafts for internal textual defects using deterministic whole-document checks, bounded subagent review, independent verification, and machine-enforced completion gates. Use when Codex is asked to proofread, copyedit for errors, conduct an internal pre-circulation review, catch typos or missing and duplicated words, audit internal…
codex/internal-proofread/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
legal-research-memo
Research and write verified legal or scholarly memos, including doctrinal synthesis, historical research, literature reviews, and resumable investigations. Use for open legal questions or memo assignments; use find-cite for one proposition and cite-check for auditing an existing draft.
codex/legal-research-memo/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
setup
Set up, inspect, disable, or troubleshoot optional automatic updates for the Legal Research Skills Codex plugin. Use for this plugin's setup and update requests, not research tasks or Claude configuration.
codex/setup/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
build-library
Build or extend a Zotero collection of verified sources for a project — find the sources (web, catalogs, HeinOnline via an institutional library proxy), add them with full metadata via the Zotero Web API, then run a deterministic anti-hallucination check that every added item must pass. Trigger when the user wants sources gathered into Zotero ("build a library for X", "add the books/articles on X…
claude-code/skills/build-library/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
case-prep
Gather the full document set for a SCOTUS case being prepped for a podcast episode, class, or article — cert-stage filings, merits briefs, lower-court opinion, questions presented, and oral-argument transcript — and load them onto the user's reMarkable in a per-case folder. Manual trigger — use when the user says "prep <case>", "grab the briefs for <case>", "load up <case>", or similar.
claude-code/skills/case-prep/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
legal-research
Deep legal research that fans out multiple agents across free legal sources, verifies every authority, and returns a polished, well-cited memo. Use for case-law research, legal-scholarship / literature reviews, or both. Modes — caselaw | scholarship | both. Trigger when the user wants a thorough doctrinal memo, a survey of the academic debate, an answer grounded in cases/statutes, or a research d…
claude-code/skills/legal-research/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
proofread
Proofread an article draft's prose — typos, grammar, missing/doubled words, editing residue, and internal consistency (hyphenation, capitalization, defined terms, Part/TOC/note cross-references) — returning a location-ordered report with verbatim Cmd+F find-strings. Trigger when the user wants a draft proofread ("proofread this", "proofing pass on <file>", "check the draft for typos/consistency")…
claude-code/skills/proofread/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
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Review before you install
A skill is a set of instructions and scripts your agent will follow, and it can run code on your machine. Read the SKILL.md and any scripts first — this listing is not a security review.