cold-start-interview Skill
House cold-start for the litigation plugin — branches by role (in-house, firm associate, solo) and side (plaintiff, defense, both), captures risk calibration, landscape, and house style, and writes the practice profile CLAUDE.md. Use on a fresh install, when the user wants to set up or redo the practice profile, or to Published by anthropics in claude-for-legal.
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Security review, 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?
House cold-start for the litigation plugin — branches by role (in-house, firm associate, solo) and side (plaintiff, defense, both), captures risk calibration, landscape, and house style, and writes the practice profile CLAUDE.md. Use on a fresh install, when the user wants to set up or redo the practice profile, or to 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.
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Key capabilities
- Includes SKILL.md support
- Reusable instructions support
- Security review
- Security review use cases
Declared skill metadata
- Source file: litigation-legal/skills/cold-start-interview/SKILL.md
These fields retain source and confidence evidence from the indexed SKILL.md.
Compatibility and setup
- Install or run with Copy skill directory
When to use cold-start-interview Skill
- Use it for security review.
Built with
Editorial notes
Source
- Creator: anthropics
- Repository: anthropics/claude-for-legal
- Skill file: litigation-legal/skills/cold-start-interview/SKILL.md
What it does
House cold-start for the litigation plugin — branches by role (in-house, firm associate, solo) and side (plaintiff, defense, both), captures risk calibration, landscape, and house style, and writes the practice profile CLAUDE.md. Use on a fresh install, when the user wants to set up or redo the practice profile, or to
Skill instructions
/cold-start-interview 1. Check ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md. If already populated and no --redo, ask before overwriting. 2. Follow the workflow and reference below. 3. Run Part 0 (role, side, integration check). The interview branches by role and side. - Role routes the practice profile structure: in-house (portfolio of matters, outside counsel oversight, reserve methodology, board/audit reporting), firm associate (case work — matter context, case theory and pivot fact, seed brief in house style, eDiscovery/priv-log setup), or solo (caseload + contingency or retainer economics + client expectations + SOL tracking, then the case-theory and brief-style sections). - Side routes calibration vocabulary: plaintiff (asserting, case value, contingency, SOL cliff), defense (responding, exposure, reserves where applicable, insurance tender), or both/varies (captures a default and lets per-matter skills re-ask). After Part 0, walk the sections that match th
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Frequently asked questions
What is cold-start-interview?
cold-start-interview is a open-source AI agent skill with Copy skill directory. House cold-start for the litigation plugin — branches by role (in-house, firm associate, solo) and side (plaintiff, defense, both), captures risk calibration, landscape, and house style, and writes.
Who is cold-start-interview best for?
cold-start-interview is best for reusing agent instructions, scripts, and references, security review 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.
Project health auto-fetched from the source repository.
Maintain this resource?
Review this source-backed profile, send a correction with evidence, or link to it from your documentation. Claims verify your relationship to the project; profile facts still require source evidence and editorial review.
