# client-comms-log

Keep dated client contact records by case, then review recent entries or scan for follow-up gaps. Useful before a client call or when handing a case to someone else.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 591 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/client-comms-log/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/client-comms-log

## What it does

In add mode, the skill gathers details about a contact, formats an entry for approval, and saves it to the case log. New entries go at the top. Past entries are not rewritten; corrections belong in a new entry that refers to the earlier one. The log lives at `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/client-comms/[case-id]/log.md`.

Use `--read` for recent contacts, `--summary` for a short account of the log, or `--patterns` to check for unanswered messages, overdue follow-ups, language issues, shifts in tone, and long contact gaps. When a contact sets a deadline, the skill can offer `/legal-clinic:deadlines --add`. It does not import calls or email from Clio, so records must be entered manually.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill client-comms-log -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/client-comms-log/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- record a client call or email under a case
- review recent contact before speaking with a client
- prepare a communication summary for a case handoff
- spot unanswered messages and overdue follow-ups

## Example prompts
- Log a call for case `CASE-123`: the client said a response is due Friday.
- Show the latest communication entries for `CASE-123`.
- Review the `CASE-123` log for unanswered messages and missed follow-ups.

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

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```text
---
name: client-comms-log
description: >
  Log a client communication — call, email, text, letter, in-person, voicemail.
  Append-only per-case record with dated entries, direction, medium, summary,
  action items. Works alongside /client-letter and /status client. Use when
  logging a call or client email, reviewing a communication log, or asking
  "what did we tell [client] last time".
argument-hint: "[case-id] [--add (default) | --read | --summary | --patterns]"
---

# /client-comms-log

1. Use the workflow below.
2. Require case-id (prompt if not provided).
3. Route by flag:
   - `--add` (default): capture direction, medium, student, summary, action items, follow-up due. Confirm with user. Append (prepend most-recent-first) to `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/client-comms/[case-id]/log.md`.
   - `--read`: show the most recent N entries.
   - `--summary`: one-paragraph condensed read.
   - `--patterns`: scan for unanswered comms, missed follow-ups, language gaps, tone shifts, contact gaps. Supervision-oriented.
4. Integration: offer `/legal-clinic:deadlines --add` if the log establishes a deadline; route to `/legal-clinic:semester-handoff` via `--summary` when relevant.

---

# Client Communications Log

## Purpose

Four reasons to keep this log:

1. **Malpractice defense.** If a client claims "no one ever told me [X]," a dated entry showing otherwise is the answer. Clinical professors carry professional liability on student work; contemporaneous records protect them.
2. **Continuity at handoff.** The next semester's student takes over and reads the log; they don't re-ask the client questions already answered.
3. **Supervision visibility.** Five unreturned voicemails over six weeks is a pattern. The log makes patterns visible that individual students might not flag on their own.
4. **File retention.** Law school clinics have obligations to maintain complete client files. Communication history is part of that.

Light. Append-only. The student's job is to write a two-sentence entry after every contact; the skill formats it and appends.

## Load context

- `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/client-comms/[case-id]/log.md` (if exists) — append target
- `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md` → not heavily read; this skill is case-scoped

## Modes

Flag: `--add | --read | --summary | --patterns` (default: add)

### `--add` (default) — log a new entry

**Inputs:**
- Case ID (required — which case)
- Date + time (default: now)
- Direction: `in` (client → clinic) | `out` (clinic → client)
- Medium: `call | email | text | letter | in-person | video | voicemail-left | voicemail-received`
- Who (student): name
- Who (client side): client name, or "third-party: [description]" if from opposing counsel, family member, etc.
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