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/cpr-letter-drafter · lawve-ai | DecimalAI

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/cpr-letter-drafter

lawve-ai/cpr-letter-drafter-andrew-bird

Source lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills ↗License NOASSERTION

Writes the formal letter you send before suing someone in a civil case in England & Wales — the Letter Before Claim that starts the pre-action clock. The part it gets right is which pre-action protocol applies — debt, professional negligence, housing disrepair, personal injury, or the default Practice Direction on Pre-Action Conduct — each of which has its own rules a generic letter misses (the 30-day debt window, the professional-negligence preliminary-notice step). It also flags the limitation

SkillScore82Maintained

Automatic

Legal & Contracts pack

Last verified 8/16/2026

What it changes

Passed 18 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 8 of 22 without it.

Without skill36%

With skill82%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Specifies a 30-day response window for the debtor
Includes the marker [SOLICITOR: confirm limitation date]
Mentions enclosing the Debt Claims Protocol information sheet and reply form

and 7 more in the full report

10 fixed8 passed either way4 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +45 pp
Tokens: +77%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -7%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/16/2026v118 of 22 cases passed with skill

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/lawve-ai-cpr-letter-drafter-andrew-bird/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/lawve-ai-cpr-letter-drafter-andrew-bird/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add lawve-ai-cpr-letter-drafter-andrew-bird, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/lawve-ai-cpr-letter-drafter-andrew-bird/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add lawve-ai-cpr-letter-drafter-andrew-bird

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/lawve-ai-cpr-letter-drafter-andrew-bird/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/lawve-ai-cpr-letter-drafter-andrew-bird/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/lawve-ai-cpr-letter-drafter-andrew-bird/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/lawve-ai-cpr-letter-drafter-andrew-bird.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 10 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 10

Prompt

Draft a formal Letter Before Claim under English civil procedure for my client, Apex Logistics Ltd (registered company 01234567), against Zenith Trading Ltd (registered company 07654321). In June 2023, Apex delivered commercial machinery worth £45,000 under contract REF-992. Zenith failed to pay despite multiple demands. Please construct a complete LBC detailing the parties, factual chronology, breach of contract claim, itemized losses including statutory interest, attached delivery notes, readiness for ADR, and a legal notice on potential costs and court proceedings.

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Includes the marker [SOLICITOR: confirm limitation date]	Missed	Passed
Reserves the right to make a CPR Part 36 or Calderbank settlement offer regarding costs under CPR Part 44	Missed	Passed

case-01 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/16/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md194 linessingle file

/cpr-letter-drafter

Identify whether a specific pre-action protocol applies (debt, professional negligence, housing disrepair, personal injury, construction, judicial review, etc.) or whether the default Practice Direction — Pre-Action Conduct and Protocols (PACC) applies.
Apply the relevant timing, content, and disclosure requirements.
Draft the LBC with the structure that protocol expects.
Surface costs and CPR Part 36 consequences if the matter proceeds.

Letter Before Claim (England & Wales civil)

Purpose

The pre-action regime narrows issues, encourages settlement, and exposes parties who don't engage to costs sanctions. Non-compliance with PACC or a specific protocol can result in:

Stay of proceedings until compliance.
Adverse costs orders (CPR 44).
Lost interest entitlement.
Adverse inferences on conduct under CPR 44.2.

Choosing the framework

Claim type	Protocol
Debt claim where debtor is an individual (incl. sole trader)	Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims (Oct 2017)
Professional negligence (solicitors, accountants, surveyors, etc.)	Pre-Action Protocol for Professional Negligence
Personal injury (≤ £25k portal; > £25k or non-portal)	Pre-Action Protocol for Personal Injury Claims
Housing disrepair	Pre-Action Protocol for Housing Disrepair Claims
Construction & Engineering	Pre-Action Protocol for Construction and Engineering Disputes
Judicial review	Pre-Action Protocol for Judicial Review
Defamation	Pre-Action Protocol for Defamation
Possession claims	Pre-Action Protocol for Possession Claims by Social Landlords (where applicable)
Anything else	Practice Direction on Pre-Action Conduct and Protocols (PACC) — default

PACC core requirements (default)

Concise summary of the claim.
Basis on which the claim is made.
Summary of facts.
What the claimant wants.

Track record

Benchmark

18 / 22

test cases passed, vs 8 / 22 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

lawve-ai / awesome-legal-skills

skills/cpr-letter-drafter-andrew-bird/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License NOASSERTIONImported 8/3/2026Version v1

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What's inside

/cpr-letter-drafter

Letter Before Claim (England & Wales civil)

Purpose

Choosing the framework

PACC core requirements (default)

Track record

Benchmark

Adoption

SkillSafety

Source

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