memo

IRAC-scaffolded case analysis memo with research gaps flagged — the scaffold, not the analysis. Rule blocks are RESEARCH NEEDED, Application is STUDENT ANALYSIS prompts, Conclusion is blank. Use when a student needs to scaffold a case analysis memo, write up their analysis, or build an IRAC memo for a case.

Quality

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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.

Highly actionable and clearly sequenced with strong verification checkpoints, but held back by redundancy across the 'NOT' sections and a monolithic structure with no reference-file split.

Suggestions

Collapse 'What this memo is NOT' and 'What this skill does NOT do' into the Purpose section — they repeat 'scaffold, not analysis; student does the thinking' verbatim.

Mention the 'the analysis is yours' framing once (in the output banner) rather than restating it in the Purpose, Step 5, and the NOT section.

Move the large output template block (lines ~116–198) into a bundled reference file (e.g. references/memo-template.md) referenced from the Workflow section to reduce inline bulk.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient and pedagogically necessary, but 'What this memo is NOT' and 'What this skill does NOT do' restate the Purpose section, and the 'the analysis is yours' motif is repeated three times; tightening the redundancy would earn a 3.	2 / 3
Actionability	Provides concrete, copy-ready guidance — exact block formats with example text, exact plugin paths, verbatim pedagogy-mode label phrasing, and a full output template.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Numbered Step 1–3 workflow plus a pedagogy-check decision tree ('If no guide exists, use guide') and explicit verification checkpoints (cite verification, no-silent-supplement stop-and-ask loop).	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized with clearly signaled one-level references to external plugin resources (CLAUDE.md, guides/<practice-area>.md, /research-start), but the ~200-line body is monolithic with no bundle files and a large inline output template that could be split out.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 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 specific, well-triggered description that answers both what and when with concrete, distinctive language and no over-claims or voice violations.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete behaviors — 'Rule blocks are RESEARCH NEEDED, Application is STUDENT ANALYSIS prompts, Conclusion is blank' — tied to the IRAC-memo domain, matching the 'lists multiple specific concrete actions' anchor.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicit 'Use when a student needs to scaffold a case analysis memo, write up their analysis, or build an IRAC memo for a case' answers both what it produces and when to invoke it.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Natural law-clinic trigger terms — 'case analysis memo', 'scaffold a case analysis memo', 'write up their analysis', 'build an IRAC memo for a case' — cover the phrasings a user would actually say.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The IRAC-scaffolded case-analysis-memo niche with blank-conclusion-by-design is a clear, narrow trigger unlikely to conflict with other skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

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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/memo/SKILL.md
Commit: 4a6c651

Reviewed: 6 days ago

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