Build Guide for Clinic Supervisors
Lets a supervising attorney configure how student-facing legal clinic skills behave, via a practice-area guide file.
- Repository
- anthropics/claude-for-legal
- Stars
- 9,870
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Files
- 1 file
What it does
This skill helps a supervising attorney at a law school legal clinic write a plain-markdown guide for one practice area (such as immigration or housing). The guide controls how the student-facing skills in the same plugin behave: which intake questions students ask, whether the skills assist, guide, or teach, when students must stop for supervisor sign-off, and local rules. It first checks that the user's role is set to supervising attorney, then walks through a checklist and saves the guide to a config folder under the user's Claude directory.
Great for
- Supervising attorneys who run a law school or legal aid clinic and want student-facing AI skills to match their teaching approach
- Clinic directors revising how intake and drafting skills behave for a specific practice area
Skip it if
- Students, who are told to run the onboarding skill instead; the skill stops if the role is not supervising attorney
- Anyone seeking legal advice: the skill only writes configuration and does not itself verify law, deadlines, or local rules, which the supervisor must confirm
Try asking
- “Build a guide for our immigration removal defense practice area”
- “Revise the housing guide so students get more Socratic feedback before seeing models”
- “Set up a transactional nonprofit guide with sign-off required before any client representation”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.
build-guide.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip build-guide.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip build-guide.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Work through the checklist in the interview and mark items you have no strong view on; the skill will record them as using defaults
- Edit the generated guide file by hand for small changes instead of re-running the whole interview
- Confirm that the practice area is listed in your clinic profile, or student intakes will not route to it
What's inside
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from anthropics/claude-for-legal under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.