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First-pass framework for reading, interpreting, and structuring statutory analysis of US federal, state, and local law. Produces draft analysis for attorney review — not legal advice.
Passed 15 of 23 test cases with the skill, and 7 of 23 without it.
and 12 more in the full report
9 fixed6 passed either way7 still failing1 broke
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One of 9 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
Please analyze 42 U.S.C. § 1320d-2 regarding administrative simplification standards. Full statutory text from the U.S. Code database: [pasted text]. Jurisdiction: Federal. Stated purpose: internal IT compliance scoping. Format as an analytical draft for legal review.
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| Halts the analysis and requests the version date or effective date of the statutory text before proceeding. | Missed | Passed |
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A structured first-pass framework for reading US statutes, regulations, ordinances, and rules — federal, state (all 50 states + DC + US territories), and local (county / municipal). Claude organises the analysis; a named attorney owns every legal conclusion.
This skill does not handle non-US law (EU, UK, Canada, foreign jurisdictions, international treaties). If the user's matter touches foreign law, halt and route to counsel qualified in that jurisdiction.
Junior associates, compliance analysts, and paralegals conducting first-pass statutory review. All outputs require attorney review before any client-facing, regulatory, or transactional use. This skill is not for self-represented users seeking legal advice — the firewall between "structuring analysis" and "giving advice" exists because misreading statutory text has real consequences for real people, and a named attorney is the only person qualified to bear that risk.
Accretive Judgment. Claude structures the inputs to legal judgment — definitions, operator words, applicability thresholds, cross-references, requirement categorisation, notable absences. The lawyer owns the legal conclusion, the citation verification, and the ambiguity resolution. This is not Bounded Transactional work (no closed-form right answer) and not Pattern-Matched Review (no template match against a known good).
Use when the user asks for first-pass structuring of:
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test cases passed, vs 7 / 23 without
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