# cold-call-prep

Predicts the questions your professor is likely to ask on a case, then drills you Socratically and flags where you're shaky.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 608 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/law-student/skills/cold-call-prep/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/cold-call-prep

## What it does

The skill reads your class list and professor notes from `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/CLAUDE.md`, works out which case is assigned, and builds 6–10 likely questions across facts, holding, reasoning, application and policy. The weighting shifts with how that professor runs a call.

Then the drill starts. The agent asks and waits. Answer well and it moves on. Answer right but sloppy and it pushes: explain why the court's reasoning gets you there. Answer wrong and it narrows the question instead of handing over the holding. Get genuinely lost and it tells you to re-read the case.

You finish with a summary split into strong, shaky and missed, plus a short list of what to re-check before class. Give it only a case name and questions rest on general knowledge, marked as uncertain — paste the text or casebook pages instead. The skill also stops when your question sounds like a real situation: a lease, a ticket, a letter from an employer. It won't give legal advice and points you to an actual lawyer.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal --path law-student/skills/cold-call-prep
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill cold-call-prep -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/law-student/skills/cold-call-prep/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- predict a professor's questions on a specific case
- drill yourself Socratically without being handed answers
- find the spots you're shaky on before class
- build a re-read list for the next session
- separate a study question from a real legal problem

## Example prompts
- prep me for tomorrow's cold call on Marbury v. Madison
- cold call the case I read last night
- what might my professor ask on this reading

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

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---
name: cold-call-prep
description: >
  Prep for a cold-call — predict the professor's likely questions and drill
  them Socratically, flagging where you're shaky so you know what to re-read
  before class. Use when the user says "prep for class tomorrow", "cold call
  [case]", "what might [professor] ask on", or points at assigned reading.
argument-hint: "[case name, or paste case text, or path to reading]"
---

# /cold-call-prep

1. Load `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/CLAUDE.md` → class list, professors, learning style.
2. Apply the workflow below.
3. Identify reading (case name + citation, professor, class, syllabus context).
4. Predict 6-10 likely questions across categories (Facts / Holding / Reasoning / Application / Policy), weighted to professor's known tendencies.
5. Drill using socratic pattern — ask, wait, push back, narrow when stuck. Don't give answers.
6. Post-drill summary: strong/shaky/missed; what to re-check before class.

---

## Real-matter check

If the question the student is asking sounds like it's about a REAL situation — their lease, their parking ticket, their family's business, their friend's arrest, a real dollar amount, a real deadline, a real party name — stop.

> "This sounds like a real situation, not a hypothetical. I can't give you legal advice, and you can't give it either — you're not a lawyer yet. If this is real, [the person] needs an actual lawyer: legal aid, your school's clinic, a lawyer referral service (your jurisdiction's bar association, law society, or legal aid body), or (if there's money) a private attorney. I'm happy to help you understand the general legal concepts involved, but that's study, not advice."

Watch for: real names, real addresses, real dates, specific dollar amounts, "my landlord/boss/parent/friend," "I got a ticket/letter/notice," deadlines measured in days. Any one of these is a trigger.

## Purpose

Cold-calling lives or dies on preparation. The professor has read the case dozens of times and knows the questions; the student has read it once. This skill narrows the gap — predicts the likely question patterns for the case, drills the student on them, and surfaces what they haven't locked in.

Not a replacement for reading the case. A test that you actually did.

## Confidence discipline

- When the student provides case text or casebook excerpts: I predict questions based on the actual text. Confident.
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