# cold-start-interview

Runs an interview about your AI governance practice and writes the profile to CLAUDE.md so the plugin's other skills read the same setup.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 630 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/ai-governance-legal/skills/cold-start-interview/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/cold-start-interview

## What it does

The skill walks you through a cold-start interview: what role your company plays in the AI supply chain, which regulations apply, where your red lines sit for AI use cases. Answers land in `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md`, and every other skill in the plugin reads from that file.

Before asking anything, it checks whether a profile already exists. If the file is populated and has no `[PLACEHOLDER]` markers, it asks before overwriting. Two flags change the flow: `--redo` reruns the full interview and overwrites the profile, while `--check-integrations` rescans MCP connectors and refreshes the integrations table without the full interview — useful after wiring up Slack or document storage.

You can feed it source documents: an acceptable use policy, a prior impact assessment, key vendor AI agreements, a model inventory or allow/block lists. It reads them and pulls out commitments, prohibitions, vendor positions and the assessment structure. If a shared `company-profile.md` already exists, the company questions are skipped. One thing to check first: if the working directory sits inside a project, the skill can only read files there, so documents in `Downloads` or `Documents` have to be moved in by hand.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal --path ai-governance-legal/skills/cold-start-interview
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill cold-start-interview -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/ai-governance-legal/skills/cold-start-interview/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- capture your AI governance profile once instead of re-entering context in every skill
- separate builder obligations from deployer obligations before anything else
- extract commitments and prohibitions from an existing acceptable use policy
- refresh the MCP integrations table after adding a new connector
- migrate a profile from the old plugin cache path to the config path

## Example prompts
- /ai-governance-legal:cold-start-interview
- /ai-governance-legal:cold-start-interview --check-integrations
- /ai-governance-legal:cold-start-interview --redo

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

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```text
---
name: cold-start-interview
description: >
  Run the cold-start interview — learns your AI governance practice and writes
  `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md` from
  your AI policy, a reference impact assessment, and key vendor AI agreements.
  Use when the practice profile is missing or contains `[PLACEHOLDER]` markers,
  or when user says "set up ai governance plugin", "onboard me", "configure ai
  governance".
argument-hint: "[--redo | --check-integrations]"
---

# /cold-start-interview

1. Check `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md` — if populated and no `--redo`, confirm before overwriting.
2. Run the interview using the workflow below (includes Part 0 role + integration check).
3. Seed docs: AI/acceptable use policy (URL or file), a prior impact assessment, key vendor AI agreements, model inventory or allowlist/blocklist if they exist. Read all provided.
4. Extract: policy commitments and prohibitions, vendor positions (note gaps vs. stated), impact assessment structure, approved/prohibited tool lists.
5. Migration: if a populated CLAUDE.md (no `[PLACEHOLDER]` markers) exists at `~/.claude/plugins/cache/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/*/CLAUDE.md` but not at the config path, copy it to the config path and tell the user what was migrated.
6. Write `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md` (create parent directories as needed). Show summary. Offer first task.

## Flags

- `--redo` — re-run the full interview and overwrite `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md`.
- `--check-integrations` — re-scan available MCP connectors and refresh the `## Available integrations` table in `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md` without re-running the full interview. Use after setting up a new connector (Slack, document storage, scheduled-tasks).
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