draft

First draft of a common clinic document — practice-area templates (asylum applications, eviction answers, protective order petitions, demand letters), jurisdiction-aware formatting, explicitly a starting point requiring student analysis and attorney review. Use when a student needs a first draft of a motion, letter, petition, declaration, or other clinic document.

Quality

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a well-structured, highly actionable instruction skill with a clear sequenced workflow and explicit validation gates appropriate to consequential court filings. The main weakness is conciseness: the 'starting point / requires review' safety message is repeated across several sections and could be consolidated to reduce token overhead.

Suggestions

Consolidate the repeated 'starting point, not final work product, requires student analysis and attorney review' messaging, which currently appears in the Purpose section, Output header, 'Before this leaves the clinic', and both 'What this... does NOT do' sections, into a single authoritative statement to reduce token overhead.

Trim the pedagogy-posture section (guide/assist/teach) to the minimum needed to choose and label the mode; the full per-posture behavioral description could move to the referenced supervisor guide if present.

Consider whether the ABA Formal Opinion 512 citation and the surrounding 'designed to be supervised and verified' framing in the Output block add enough actionability to justify their tokens, or whether a one-line reference would suffice.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The core workflow is concrete rather than explaining concepts Claude already knows, but the 'starting point / not final work product / requires review' message is repeated across Purpose, the Output header, 'Before this leaves the clinic', 'What this draft does NOT do', and 'What this skill does NOT do', which could be tightened. Not 1 because the domain guidance (pedagogy postures, flag taxonomy) is genuinely useful non-obvious content; not 3 because of the repetition and overall length.	2 / 3
Actionability	Highly actionable for an instruction-only skill: exact flag syntax ([FACT NEEDED], [VERIFY], [UNCERTAIN]), a document-to-template mapping table, explicit config file paths to load, and a verbatim output template with a student review checklist. This is concrete, executable guidance, matching the score-3 anchor.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Clear six-step sequence (which document, gather facts, apply jurisdiction, draft, flag uncertainty, supervision routing) with explicit validation checkpoints: the flag-and-resolve-before-filing system and a hard supervision gate before any court filing provide a real feedback loop for a consequential operation. Not 2 because verification checkpoints are explicit rather than implicit.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	No bundle files exist, and the body is self-contained with well-organized sections (Purpose, Load context, Pedagogy check, Workflow, Output, What it does NOT do). Per the rubric, a skill with no need for external references can score 3 on well-organized sections; the only path references are runtime config files outside the bundle, not nested skill references.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: concrete capabilities, explicit 'Use when' trigger guidance covering natural document-type terms, both 'what' and 'when' clearly answered, and a distinct legal-clinic niche that won't conflict with other skills. Third-person voice is maintained throughout.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete document types ('asylum applications, eviction answers, protective order petitions, demand letters') and concrete actions ('draft', 'jurisdiction-aware formatting'), matching the 'lists multiple specific concrete actions' anchor. Not 2 because it enumerates several distinct document types rather than naming a domain plus a single action.	3 / 3
Completeness	Clearly answers both 'what' (first draft of clinic documents from practice-area templates with jurisdiction-aware formatting) and 'when' via an explicit 'Use when a student needs a first draft...' clause, matching the score-3 anchor exactly.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Provides good coverage of natural trigger terms ('first draft of a motion, letter, petition, declaration, or other clinic document') users would actually say. Not 2 because it lists several natural variations rather than one generic term.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche (legal-clinic first drafts requiring student analysis and attorney review) with distinct triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills. Not 2 because the clinic/student/supervisor framing is specific rather than a generic 'works with documents'.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: anthropics/claude-for-legal
Path: legal-clinic/skills/draft/SKILL.md
Commit: 4a6c651

Reviewed: 6 days ago

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