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cold-start-interview Skill

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Run the cold-start interview — learns your privacy practice and writes CLAUDE.md from your policy, DPA template, and a reference PIA. Use on first run, when CLAUDE.md is missing or has placeholders, or when the user says "set up the privacy plugin", "onboard me", "configure privacy", or wants to re-run the interview or Published by anthropics in claude-for-legal.

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Documentation, Writing, Includes SKILL.md, Reusable instructions

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Setup

Copy skill directory

Project health

24 days ago · Apache-2.0 license

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What is cold-start-interview Skill?

Run the cold-start interview — learns your privacy practice and writes CLAUDE.md from your policy, DPA template, and a reference PIA. Use on first run, when CLAUDE.md is missing or has placeholders, or when the user says "set up the privacy plugin", "onboard me", "configure privacy", or wants to re-run the interview or 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: privacy-legal/skills/cold-start-interview/SKILL.md

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

Compatibility and setup

Copy skill directory
  • Install or run with Copy skill directory

When to use cold-start-interview Skill

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

Built with

PythonCopy skill directory

Editorial notes

Source

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

What it does

Run the cold-start interview — learns your privacy practice and writes CLAUDE.md from your policy, DPA template, and a reference PIA. Use on first run, when CLAUDE.md is missing or has placeholders, or when the user says "set up the privacy plugin", "onboard me", "configure privacy", or wants to re-run the interview or

Skill instructions

/cold-start-interview 1. Check ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/privacy-legal/CLAUDE.md — if populated and no --redo, confirm before overwriting. 2. Run the interview workflow below. 3. Seed docs: privacy policy (URL or file), DPA template, one reference PIA. Read all three. 4. Extract: policy commitments, DPA positions (note deltas vs. stated), PIA structure. 5. Migration: if a populated CLAUDE.md (no [PLACEHOLDER] markers) exists at ~/.claude/plugins/cache/claude-for-legal/privacy-legal//CLAUDE.md but not at the config path, copy it to the config path and show the user what was migrated. 6. Write ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/privacy-legal/CLAUDE.md (create parent directories as needed). Show summary. Offer first task. --check-integrations Re-runs the integration availability check (document storage, Slack, scheduled-tasks) and updates Available integrations in ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/privacy-legal/CLAUDE.md. Does not re-interview. Use when you

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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. Run the cold-start interview — learns your privacy practice and writes CLAUDE.md from your policy, DPA template, and a reference PIA.

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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