# status

Creates case status summaries for clients, supervisors, or courts. Use it when the same case notes need a different format and level of detail.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 590 installs · ★ 9795
- Author: anthropics · official Anthropic repository
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/HEAD/legal-clinic/skills/status/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/anthropics-status

## What it does

This skill reads case notes and drafts a status summary in `client`, `internal`, or `court` mode. Client mode uses plain language to cover recent events, next steps, required actions, and clinic contact details.

Internal mode lays out the procedural posture, work completed since the last check-in, upcoming deadlines, questions for the professor, and a section for the student's assessment. Court mode drafts a formal status report with a caption, procedural history, current status, and proposed next steps under local rules.

The skill loads `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md` before working and relies on case notes for facts. Client communications and court filings need supervision review; this skill drafts documents but does not decide what to tell a client or file anything with a court.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill status -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/status/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/status/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill status -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/status/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill status -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/status/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install anthropics/claude-for-legal status
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/status/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill status -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal --path legal-clinic/skills/status
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/status/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill status -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/HEAD/legal-clinic/skills/status/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- draft a plain-language client update
- prepare an internal report for a professor
- create a court status report draft
- surface deadlines and questions for review

## Example prompts
- \`/legal-clinic:status client` — draft a client update from the case notes
- \`/legal-clinic:status internal` — prepare a status summary for the professor
- \`/legal-clinic:status court` — draft a court-ready status report

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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````text
---
name: status
description: >
  Case status summary by audience — client-facing (plain language), internal
  (for the professor), or court-ready (formal caption format per local rules).
  Same facts, different framing and depth. Use when a student needs to update
  the client, brief the professor, or prepare a court status report.
argument-hint: "[client | internal | court]"
---

# /status

1. Load `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md` → supervision style, plain-language standards, jurisdiction.
2. Use the workflow below. Read case notes.
3. Generate for the specified audience:
   - `client` — plain language, what happened/next/you do/reach us
   - `internal` — procedural posture, done since last check-in, upcoming, needs professor input, student's assessment
   - `court` — formal status report in caption format per local rules
4. Supervision routing per audience (client-facing and court-ready usually flag).

```
/legal-clinic:status client
```

```
/legal-clinic:status internal
```

```
/legal-clinic:status court
```

---

# Status: Audience-Aware Case Summaries

## Purpose

Clinics generate enormous numbers of status updates — to clients, to professors, to co-counsel, to courts. Same case, same facts, completely different documents. This skill takes the case notes and produces the right summary for the right reader.

## Load context

`~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md` → supervision style, plain-language standards (for client-facing), jurisdiction.
Case notes for facts.

## Audience modes

### Client-facing

**Reader:** The client. Probably stressed. Possibly unfamiliar with legal process. Reading level per `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md` plain-language standards (default 6th grade).

**Include:**
- What's happened since they last heard from the clinic
- What's happening next and when
- What (if anything) they need to do
- How to reach the clinic

**Don't include:**
- Legal analysis (they don't need to know the IRAC)
- Weaknesses in their case (unless it's time to have that conversation — and that's a call for the professor, not a status update)
- Jargon

*Review label for the student (not for the client — strip before sending):*
`[AI-ASSISTED DRAFT — requires student review and supervision step per plugin config]`

Check your jurisdiction's student practice rule for required law-student sign-off language; some jurisdictions require specific forms.

```markdown
Dear [Client],

I wanted to update you on your case.

**What's happened:** [Plain English. "We filed your answer with the court on
[date]" not "The responsive pleading was submitted."]

**What's next:** [What and when. "The court scheduled a hearing for [date] at
[time]. You need to be there." Or: "We're waiting for the landlord's lawyer
to respond. That could take a few weeks."]

**What you need to do:** [Specific and clear. Or: "Nothing right now — we'll
````
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