# demand-intake

Collects context before a demand letter and writes it to intake.md. Use it for payment demands, cure notices, cease-and-desist letters, and related matters.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 611 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-intake/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/demand-intake

## What it does

The skill starts by asking for the matter’s posture: letter tone, response window, marking, and signer. It then runs eight core questions covering the demand type, parties, triggering event, evidence, legal basis, requested outcome, deadlines, prior outreach, and distribution.

It reads practice settings from `CLAUDE.md`, creates a slug from the title, counterparty, and year-month, then writes the answers to `intake.md` under `demand-letters`. The `demand-draft` skill reads that file when producing the letter draft.

For material demands, or when run with `--full`, it asks strategic questions about bargaining position, alternatives after a refusal, and downside tolerance. That section can be skipped, but the draft will carry verification markers where those answers are needed. For a matter where tone or consequences matter, that is a reason to complete it.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- gather evidence and facts for a demand letter
- record the response terms for a specific matter
- capture the legal or contractual basis of a claim
- write intake context for `demand-draft`
- assess bargaining position before escalation

## Example prompts
- Run `/demand-intake` and collect context before drafting a demand letter.
- Use `/demand-intake Payment demand --full` for the complete intake.
- Start `/demand-intake` for a breach-cure notice.

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

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---
name: demand-intake
description: Pre-drafting context gathering for a demand letter — parties, facts, basis, leverage, BATNA, and privilege filters — written to a structured intake.md the demand-draft skill reads. Use when the user wants to prep a demand letter, run intake before drafting, or capture context for a payment demand, breach/cure notice, cease-and-desist, employment separation, or preservation demand.
argument-hint: "[title] [--full]"
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# /demand-intake

1. Load `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md` → demand-letter practice, landscape, risk calibration.
2. Follow the workflow and reference below.
3. Run the adaptive intake (core 8 always; strategic block if material or `--full`).
4. Generate slug from title + counterparty + year-month.
5. Write `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/demand-letters/[slug]/intake.md`.
6. Confirm with user: "Intake saved. Run `/litigation-legal:demand-draft [slug]` when ready."

---

# Demand Intake

## Purpose

The drafting is downstream. The value is in the pre-writing — forcing the questions a careless letter skips. Leverage, BATNA, downside tolerance, privilege filters, the actual audience. A demand letter sent without thinking about those is worse than no letter.

## Load context

- `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md` → Demand-letter practice (insurance-tender timing, materiality threshold for matter creation, any seed-doc templates), landscape (counterparty type, repeat-adversary patterns), risk calibration (to pre-estimate materiality), house style. **Tone, compliance period, marking, signer are NOT practice-level defaults — they are set per matter in the `## Posture for this matter` step below.**

## Flags

- `--full` → run the complete intake regardless of materiality heuristics (for counsel who wants thorough every time)

## The intake

### Posture for this matter (ask FIRST, before the core)

> **Posture for this matter.** Demand-letter tone and terms are case-by-case, not a practice default. Ask:
> - **Tone:** measured / assertive / aggressive? (depends on the relationship, the amount, and whether litigation is likely)
> - **Response window:** what's reasonable given the claim? (14 days is common for payment demands; 30 days for cure; 7 days for cease-and-desist — but the contract or protocol may set it)
> - **Marking:** does this need a "without prejudice" or "without prejudice save as to costs" marking? (settlement communications do; assertions of claim often don't; jurisdiction matters — ask if unsure)
> - **Signer:** you, the client, the GC, instructed solicitor/counsel?
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