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cold-start-interview Skill

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Run the cold-start interview — learns your AI governance practice and writes ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md from your AI policy, a reference impact assessment, and key vendor AI agreements. Use when the practice profile is missing or contains [PLACEHOLDER] markers, or when user Published by anthropics in claude-for-legal.

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Documentation, Writing, Includes SKILL.md, Reusable instructions

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25 days ago · Apache-2.0 license

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What is cold-start-interview Skill?

Run the cold-start interview — learns your AI governance practice and writes ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md from your AI policy, a reference impact assessment, and key vendor AI agreements. Use when the practice profile is missing or contains [PLACEHOLDER] markers, or when user Published by anthropics in claude-for-legal. This profile combines repository metadata with install, compatibility, and usage signals so developers can quickly decide whether it fits their agent workflow before opening the source repository.

Trust signal
95/100
Maintenance signal
90/100
Adoption signal
99/100

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Key capabilities

  • Includes SKILL.md support
  • Reusable instructions support
  • Documentation
  • Writing
  • Documentation use cases
  • Writing use cases

Declared skill metadata

  • Source file: ai-governance-legal/skills/cold-start-interview/SKILL.md

These fields retain source and confidence evidence from the indexed SKILL.md.

Compatibility and setup

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When to use cold-start-interview Skill

  • Use it for documentation.
  • Use it for writing.

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Source

  • Creator: anthropics
  • Repository: anthropics/claude-for-legal
  • Skill file: ai-governance-legal/skills/cold-start-interview/SKILL.md

What it does

Run the cold-start interview — learns your AI governance practice and writes ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md from your AI policy, a reference impact assessment, and key vendor AI agreements. Use when the practice profile is missing or contains [PLACEHOLDER] markers, or when user

Skill instructions

/cold-start-interview 1. Check ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md — if populated and no --redo, confirm before overwriting. 2. Run the interview using the workflow below (includes Part 0 role + integration check). 3. Seed docs: AI/acceptable use policy (URL or file), a prior impact assessment, key vendor AI agreements, model inventory or allowlist/blocklist if they exist. Read all provided. 4. Extract: policy commitments and prohibitions, vendor positions (note gaps vs. stated), impact assessment structure, approved/prohibited tool lists. 5. Migration: if a populated CLAUDE.md (no [PLACEHOLDER] markers) exists at ~/.claude/plugins/cache/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal//CLAUDE.md but not at the config path, copy it to the config path and tell the user what was migrated. 6. Write ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md (create parent directories as needed). Show summary. Offer first task. Flags - --redo — re-run th

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What is cold-start-interview?

cold-start-interview is a open-source AI agent skill with Copy skill directory. Run the cold-start interview — learns your AI governance practice and writes ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md from your AI policy, a reference impact.

Who is cold-start-interview best for?

cold-start-interview is best for reusing agent instructions, scripts, and references, documentation workflows, writing workflows.

How do I install cold-start-interview?

Install or run cold-start-interview using Copy skill directory. Check cold-start-interview for the latest setup command.

Is cold-start-interview actively maintained?

cold-start-interview may need a closer maintenance check before production use.

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