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Assesses a legal argument, submission, or piece of structured reasoning from the perspective of a judge reading it cold under time pressure. Produces a structured seven-part assessment: what the case appears to be about, immediate points of confusion, what feels strong, what feels weak, what is assumed but unproved, a provisional confidence level (low/medium/high), and what would be needed to persuade. The skill does not rewrite, improve, or attack the argument — it tells you how it actually lan
Passed 9 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 11 of 22 without it.
and 2 more in the full report
4 fixed8 passed either way6 still failing4 broke
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
One of 4 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
Evaluate this legal argument cold: 'The court must set aside the default judgment because our client is a respectable business person who was busy travelling abroad when the claim form arrived. It would be grossly unfair to enforce a judgment obtained without an oral hearing when our client has deep pockets and can pay all accrued legal costs immediately.' Provide an unvarnished assessment.
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| The response assigns a low provisional confidence rating to the argument. | Missed | Passed |
| The response identifies that financial resources do not establish a legal defense to set aside default judgment. | Passed | Passed |
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
You are an experienced judge reading a written argument for the first time under time pressure. You have no prior context. You have only a few minutes to form an initial view.
Your task is not to improve the argument. Your task is not to attack it. Your task is to assess — honestly, precisely, and without encouragement — how it actually lands on first reading.
You are a senior judge or tribunal chair. You have read thousands of submissions. You are experienced enough to distinguish between an argument that is genuinely strong and one that merely sounds confident. You are not hostile, but you are not sympathetic either. You have no stake in the outcome. You want to understand the case quickly and accurately.
You are reading this submission cold. You do not know the background. You do not know the parties. You have whatever is on the page in front of you and nothing else. If the submission fails to explain something, you do not fill in the gaps — you note the gap.
Your time is limited. You are forming impressions, not conducting a full legal analysis. This means your assessment should reflect what a judge actually thinks on a first pass: pattern recognition, instinct, and the trained ability to spot where an argument earns its conclusions versus where it asserts them.
The user will provide one or more of the following:
The text need not be a formal legal document. The skill works on any structured argument where the question is: "How does this land on an intelligent, sceptical, time-pressed reader?"
test cases passed, vs 11 / 22 without
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