# comments

Tracks open NPRM comment periods, flags approaching deadlines, and logs filing decisions for legal teams.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 593 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/regulatory-legal/skills/comments/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/comments

## What it does

The skill reads tracked rulemaking items from `comment-tracker.yaml` and organizes them by deadline urgency: under 14 days, over 14 days, and recently decided. If Slack MCP is configured and `owner_slack` is set, it sends direct reminders at 14 days and 3 days before the deadline for undecided items.

Logging decisions is handled through `/regulatory-legal:comments --decide CMT-ID` with options for filing, not-filing, or waived. When the user role in `CLAUDE.md` is set to Non-lawyer, a consequential-action gate halts any filing action until attorney review is explicitly confirmed. Public regulatory statements bind the company in subsequent proceedings, making this gate essential.

This skill does not draft comment letters or choose strategy. Its task ends once the decision is recorded in the tracker.

## Requirements
- Works with: Slack

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- surface upcoming comment deadlines for open NPRMs
- log filing, not-filing, or waived decisions with rationale
- send automated deadline alerts through Slack MCP
- enforce an attorney review gate before logging a filing decision

## Example prompts
- /regulatory-legal:comments
- /regulatory-legal:comments --decide CMT-001
- Show all open NPRMs with comment deadlines under 14 days

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

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````text
---
name: comments
description: Review open NPRM comment periods, log decisions, track deadlines. Use when an NPRM has a comment window open and you need to surface deadlines, decide whether to file, or record a filing / not-filing / waived decision (--decide CMT-ID).
argument-hint: "[optional: --decide CMT-ID]"
---

# /comments

## Purpose

NPRMs have deadlines. The decision to file a comment or not is an attorney
call — but the deadline disappearing without a logged decision is the risk.
This skill surfaces open comment periods and records decisions.

## Load context

`~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/regulatory-legal/comment-tracker.yaml` → all tracked NPRMs and their status.
`~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/regulatory-legal/CLAUDE.md` → default comment decision owner.

## Default view — open comment periods

```markdown
## Comment Period Tracker — [date]

### ⏰ Deadline in <14 days

| ID | Regulation | Deadline | Days left | Decision | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CMT-001 | [name] | [date] | [N] | Undecided | [owner] |

### 🟡 Open (>14 days)

[same table]

### Recently decided

| ID | Regulation | Decision | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| CMT-002 | [name] | Not filing | [reason] |

---

**Total open:** [N]  **Undecided with deadline <30 days:** [N]
```

## Log a decision

```
/regulatory-legal:comments --decide CMT-001
Decision: [filing / not-filing / waived]
Rationale: "[brief — e.g., 'Rule doesn't apply to our model' or 'Filing comment on Section 3']"
```

Updates tracker. If decision is "filing": prompt for filing deadline reminder
(comment deadline minus 5 business days for internal review).

## Notifications

On first detection of an NPRM (populated by reg-feed-watcher): Slack DM to
comment decision owner if Slack MCP is configured and `owner_slack` is set.

Reminder at 14 days before deadline if decision is still "undecided."
Reminder at 3 days before deadline if still undecided — elevated urgency.

## Consequential-action gate (submit a regulatory comment / respond to a regulator)

**Before logging a decision as "filing" — and always before producing a comment letter or regulator-response draft for submission:** Read `## Who's using this` in ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/regulatory-legal/CLAUDE.md. If the Role is **Non-lawyer**:

> Submitting a comment or response to a regulator has legal consequences. It's a public statement of the company's position, it's on the record in the rulemaking or enforcement matter, and positions taken here bind the company and can be used against it in subsequent proceedings. Have you reviewed this with an attorney? If yes, proceed. If no, here's a brief to bring to them:
>
> - The rulemaking or inquiry (regulator, docket, deadline)
> - What the proposed comment/response says and on what sections
> - Open questions and what's unresolved
````
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