# demand-draft

Turns a finished demand intake into a sendable letter, holding the draft back until privilege, FRE 408 and admission risk have been checked.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 653 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/litigation-legal/skills/demand-draft/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/demand-draft

## What it does

Feed it a completed intake from `demand-letters/[slug]/intake.md` and the skill grows a demand letter out of it. No prose appears until a gate is cleared: privilege, admission risk, accord and satisfaction, FRE 408 posture, waiver, tone, factual accuracy. Each item has to be engaged first.

The template comes from a seed document named in the practice `CLAUDE.md`, or falls back to a soft template for that demand type. You read the draft in chat and iterate; after approval it writes `draft-v[N].docx` through the docx skill, plus a `checklist.md` covering what happens after the letter goes out. Then it sizes up the matter and offers a handoff to `matter-intake` with the fields already filled.

An empty intake stops it. Missing `intake.md`, or a blank strategic block on a material demand, and the skill refuses instead of guessing. The `--skip-gate` flag skips the checks, which puts privilege and admission risk on whoever signs the letter.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- draft a demand letter from an intake that is already complete
- catch privilege waiver and admission risk before the letter goes out
- settle the tone and the response window for one particular matter
- get a .docx draft plus a post-send checklist
- hand the matter to matter-intake without retyping the fields

## Example prompts
- /demand-draft acme-nonpayment
- draft the demand for acme-nonpayment, the intake is done
- rewrite the draft for acme-nonpayment as a second version

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

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---
name: demand-draft
description: Draft a demand letter from a completed intake, gated on a privilege / FRE 408 / waiver / admission checklist, with a .docx output, post-send checklist, and an offer to create a matter. Use when the user says "draft the demand", "write the [type] letter", or has a finished demand intake ready to turn into a sendable draft.
argument-hint: "[slug] [--skip-gate] [--version=N]"
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# /demand-draft

1. Load `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/demand-letters/[slug]/intake.md`. Refuse if missing or strategic block empty (for material demands).
2. Load `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md` → demand-letter practice, house style, seed-doc table.
3. Follow the workflow and reference below.
4. Run the pre-draft gate: privilege filter, admission risk, accord-and-satisfaction, FRE 408 posture, waiver scan, tone, factual accuracy. Do not proceed until each is engaged.
5. Template select: seed doc if provided in `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md`; else soft template for the demand type.
6. Draft in-chat for review. Iterate until user approves.
7. Write `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/demand-letters/[slug]/draft-v[N].docx` using the docx skill.
8. Write `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/demand-letters/[slug]/checklist.md` (post-send checklist).
9. Assess materiality per heuristic; offer to create a matter. If yes: hand off to `matter-intake` with pre-populated fields.

---

# Demand Draft

## Purpose

Take a completed intake and produce a sendable draft. Most of the value is in refusing to draft until privilege, waiver, admission, and settlement-communication posture have been consciously addressed — the failure mode is a letter that waives privilege or constitutes an admission because no one paused to check.

## Record fidelity — quotes and pinpoints

Demand letters are advocacy, and every quoted line from a contract, an email, or a prior communication becomes an assertion the counterparty will test. Canonical statement in the plugin's `CLAUDE.md` shared guardrails; repeated here.

**Verbatim quotes must be verbatim.** Never put quotation marks around words attributed to the counterparty, their counsel, a witness, or any document unless you have the exact passage in front of you. When you want to characterize without the exact words:

- **Paraphrase without quotation marks**, with a placeholder: "Your [date] email stated X `[verify exact quote — email cite pending]`."
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