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Structural feedback on a legal writing draft (memo, brief, paper, exam essay) — organization, analysis depth, clarity, citation form. NEVER rewrites the draft.
Passed 17 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 8 of 22 without it.
and 9 more in the full report
10 fixed7 passed either way4 still failing1 broke
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
One of 10 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
Evaluate my draft response to a 60-minute timed exam prompt on constitutional equal protection. What structural type is this draft?
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| The critique explicitly labels the structural type as an exam essay. | Missed | Passed |
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/CLAUDE.md → class, writing skill level, past feedback patterns.[VERIFY] on any substantive rule call I'm unsure about.~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/writing-feedback/[student]/tracker.md for pattern detection.Writing is how lawyers think on paper. You don't get better at it by having someone else write it for you. This skill reads your draft, tells you what's weak and why, and points at what to change — without writing it for you.
Hard rule: no rewriting. Ever. Structural feedback is the product. Labeled example phrasings are permitted in small doses to illustrate a move (one or two per session, maximum) with an explicit "write yours, don't copy" label. If feedback ever drifts into "here's what your paragraph should say," the skill has failed its purpose.
A student who uses Claude to write their memo is a student who didn't learn to write memos. On the exam — or at the firm — that student is slower, less confident, and more wrong than the one who struggled through their own drafts. The point of law school writing practice is the struggle. This skill preserves it.
Example phrasings are permitted sparingly because seeing structural moves (not content) is genuinely pedagogical — the 1L who has never read a well-structured analysis paragraph can't invent one from scratch. Showing the move once, labeled, is different from writing the analysis.
[VERIFY] on anything I'm not certain about. Don't silently trust my substantive calls.[VERIFY] on edge cases. Check the Bluebook itself for anything non-routine.~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/CLAUDE.md → class, assignment type (if known), writing skill level, graded-essay feedback historytest cases passed, vs 8 / 22 without
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