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cocounsel-legal:deep-research

An AI agent skill from anthropics/claude-for-legal, scored 59 out of 100 by code.

59/ 100C

Code score by group

  • Spec12/20
  • Description7/20
  • Procedure12/15
  • Done criteria4/15
  • Resources7/10
  • Scripts5/8
  • Safety7/7
  • Upkeep5/5

It loses the most points in Description (13), the group that checks whether the description says what the skill does and when to use it.

What the author says it does

Use this skill whenever a user specifically requests legal research or Westlaw Deep Research, asks for CoCounsel Legal or cocounsel legal support, or asks a question that requires explaining, analyzing, or synthesizing U.S. law.

This is the description in the skill's own SKILL.md, written by its author, not by SkillCheatSheet.

Repository
anthropics/claude-for-legal
Folder
external_plugins/cocounsel-legal/skills/deep-research
License
Apache-2.0
GitHub stars
9,985
SKILL.md lines
133
Other files
0

Add cocounsel-legal:deep-research to your agent

npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill cocounsel-legal:deep-research

The command uses the open skills CLI. A skill is instructions and scripts your agent will follow, so read it first: open the folder on GitHub at the commit that was scored.

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Scores come from a snapshot of 300 public GitHub repositories taken on 12 November 2026. Every score is the result of fixed checks run by code; no AI is involved. How scoring works.