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billing-cycle-manager

Operational billing execution for legal matters. Monthly bill prep and billing instructions, LC invoice review and disbursement treatment, client billing query responses, cashflow modelling (LC payment obligations vs client receipts), and leverage and burn analysis (staffing mix, predicted total cost, margin trajectory). Trigger on: 'prepare the bill', 'billing instruction', 'end of month billing', 'LC invoice', 'local counsel invoice', 'pass through as disbursement', 'client querying the invoice', 'billing dispute', 'cashflow gap', 'when will we get paid', 'LC payment due', 'leverage analysis', 'staffing mix', 'predicted total cost', 'burn rate by grade', 'are we on track', 'what will this matter cost'.

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Quality

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

77%

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

The skill body is highly actionable with clear workflows and concrete templates, but it is monolithic and verbose — detailed domain knowledge is inline with no progressive disclosure to reference files, and some prose could be tightened.

Suggestions

Split the per-mode 'Domain Knowledge' sections (Bill Preparation, LC Invoice Review, Client Billing Queries, Cashflow, Leverage) into separate reference files under references/ and link to them one level deep, leaving SKILL.md as a concise overview.

Trim editorializing prose (e.g., 'The write-down that avoids a difficult conversation today creates a realisation problem...') to imperative guidance that preserves the rule without the narrative.

Move the LC query-letter template and the three table schemas into a single references/output-formats.md to reduce inline bulk while keeping the BLUF-first and identifier-check rules in the main body.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient specialized domain guidance Claude would not already know, but it includes editorializing prose ('The write-down that avoids a difficult conversation today creates a realisation problem across the matter that is harder to explain later') and narrative padding that could be tightened, so it does not reach the lean level-3 anchor.

2 / 3

Actionability

It provides concrete, copy-paste-ready artifacts — the billing-instruction table schema, the LC query-letter template, the funding-gap and leverage tables, plus specific thresholds (5% write-down flag, £50k cashflow flag) — fully actionable instruction-level guidance.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Multi-step processes are clearly sequenced across five modes with explicit validation checkpoints ('Stop. Confirm identifiers before any output is produced', 'Confirm phase completion before billing', write-down partner authorisation), matching the level-3 anchor.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The body is well-sectioned but monolithic at ~297 lines with no bundle files and no external references; detailed per-mode domain knowledge that could live in separate reference files is kept inline, fitting the level-2 'content that should be separate is inline' anchor rather than a one-level-deep reference structure.

2 / 3

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Passed

Description

100%

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

The description is specific, trigger-rich, and complete, explicitly stating both capabilities and natural-language activation triggers in a distinct legal-billing niche. It uses third-person voice and avoids vague fluff.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'Monthly bill prep and billing instructions, LC invoice review and disbursement treatment, client billing query responses, cashflow modelling ... leverage and burn analysis' — matching the multi-action anchor rather than the single-action level 2.

3 / 3

Completeness

It clearly answers both 'what' (operational billing execution capabilities) and 'when' via an explicit 'Trigger on:' clause, satisfying the level-3 anchor for both what AND when.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

The explicit 'Trigger on:' list covers natural phrasings a user would actually say ('prepare the bill', 'when will we get paid', 'what will this matter cost', 'are we on track'), giving good coverage of common variations.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

It carves a clear legal-billing-execution niche with distinct triggers unlikely to fire for adjacent skills; the body further draws an explicit boundary with budget-and-fee-manager.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

Passed

Validation

100%

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

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
legalopsconsulting/lpm-skills
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