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Cold-Start Practice Interview

Interviews you about your IP practice and writes a plain-English practice profile that other IP skills read.

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Repository
anthropics/claude-for-legal
Stars
9,870
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
1 file

What it does

This skill walks a lawyer through a first-time setup interview about how their IP practice works, such as enforcement thresholds, approval chains, brand watch settings and open-source rules. It reads any practice documents they share, then writes a plain-language profile file to their plugin config folder. Other skills in the same IP legal plugin read that profile before acting, so their output matches the practice's own positions. It can also re-check which external tools (IP management system, research tools, Slack) are actually connected.

Great for

  • An IP lawyer or legal team installing the claude-for-legal IP plugin for the first time
  • Someone re-onboarding after their enforcement posture or practice setup has changed (using --redo)
  • A user who has just connected or disconnected an integration and wants the plugin to notice (using --check-integrations)

Skip it if

  • Substituting for legal judgment: the profile reflects what the user says and what their documents contain, not verified legal advice
  • Users who are not running this inside the claude-for-legal IP plugin, since it depends on that plugin's template and other skills
  • Anyone wanting to skip the interview on a fresh install, because the skill is designed to be the first thing run, and skipping it leaves other skills without a practice profile

Try asking

  • “/ip-legal:cold-start-interview”
  • “/ip-legal:cold-start-interview --redo”
  • “/ip-legal:cold-start-interview --check-integrations”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Cold-Start Practice InterviewInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    cold-start-interview.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip cold-start-interview.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip cold-start-interview.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 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

  • Have your portfolio export, brand guidelines, cease-and-desist template, enforcement playbook and OSS policy ready so the agent can extract real positions instead of guessing
  • Install user-scoped rather than project-scoped if your documents live outside the current project folder, as the skill itself advises
  • Review the generated CLAUDE.md file and correct anything it misheard, since the file is meant to be edited in plain English

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.