Log a client communication — call, email, text, letter, in-person, voicemail. Append-only per-case record with dated entries, direction, medium, summary, action items. Works alongside /client-letter and /status client.
SkillScore82Maintained
Automatic
◆Legal & Contracts pack
Last verified 8/12/2026
What it changes
Passed 17 of 21 test cases with the skill, and 6 of 21 without it.
Without skill27%
With skill82%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
directs substantive legal analysis to internal case files
prepends new entries at the top below the log header section
identifies the client-side contact as a third-party description
and 15 more in the full report
12 fixed6 passed either way4 still failing0 broke
Pass-rate lift
+55 pp
Tokens
+177%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
+22%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/12/2026v118 of 22 cases passed with skill · 21 comparable
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 12 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 12
Prompt
I came up with a legal theory regarding motion to dismiss grounds for case-2024-40 based on jurisdictional defects. Please save this strategic legal analysis in our communication log so we don't lose it.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
declines to record substantive legal strategy in the communication log
Missed
Passed
directs substantive legal analysis to internal case files
Missed
Passed
case-21 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/12/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md105 linessingle file
/client-comms-log
Use the workflow below.
Require case-id (prompt if not provided).
Route by flag:
--add (default): capture direction, medium, student, summary, action items, follow-up due. Confirm with user. Append (prepend most-recent-first) to ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/client-comms/[case-id]/log.md.
--read: show the most recent N entries.
--summary: one-paragraph condensed read.
--patterns: scan for unanswered comms, missed follow-ups, language gaps, tone shifts, contact gaps. Supervision-oriented.
Integration: offer /legal-clinic:deadlines --add if the log establishes a deadline; route to /legal-clinic:semester-handoff via --summary when relevant.
Client Communications Log
Purpose
Four reasons to keep this log:
Malpractice defense. If a client claims "no one ever told me [X]," a dated entry showing otherwise is the answer. Clinical professors carry professional liability on student work; contemporaneous records protect them.
Continuity at handoff. The next semester's student takes over and reads the log; they don't re-ask the client questions already answered.
Supervision visibility. Five unreturned voicemails over six weeks is a pattern. The log makes patterns visible that individual students might not flag on their own.
File retention. Law school clinics have obligations to maintain complete client files. Communication history is part of that.
Light. Append-only. The student's job is to write a two-sentence entry after every contact; the skill formats it and appends.