# expansion-update

Updates international expansion YAML trackers, recalculates unblocked items, flags overdue deadlines, and surfaces next priority tasks.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 582 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/employment-legal/skills/expansion-update/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/expansion-update

## What it does

The skill interacts with `expansion-[slug].yaml` files located under `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/`. It reads the current snapshot, displaying counts for open, in-progress, completed, and blocked tasks alongside the nearest priorities and their owners.

Instead of asking about items individually, it collects project changes in a single prompt. Marking an item done prompts the skill to recalculate dependencies and highlight tasks that are now actionable. Any open item past its due date receives an explicit overdue warning.

The tracker file must exist first. If it is missing, the skill asks you to run `/employment-legal:expansion-kickoff [country]`. Tracker schema details and dependency logic also depend on the `international-expansion` reference skill.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- update international expansion project trackers in batch
- recalculate blocked and actionable tasks after closing an item
- flag overdue milestones with assigned owners
- surface top priorities sorted by dependency and deadline

## Example prompts
- /employment-legal:expansion-update Germany
- /employment-legal:expansion-update

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

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BEGIN THIRD-PARTY FILE ed6b093cf7670f48
````text
---
name: expansion-update
description: >
  Update the status of an in-progress international expansion project —
  recalculates what is now unblocked, flags anything overdue, and surfaces
  the next priorities. Use when work has happened since the last session and
  the expansion tracker needs to reflect the current state.
argument-hint: "[country name]"
---

# /expansion-update

Returns to an open expansion tracker and updates item status based on what
has happened since the last session. Recalculates what is now unblocked,
flags anything overdue, and surfaces the next priorities.

## Instructions

1. Load `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md`.

2. Identify the tracker file: `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/expansion-[slug].yaml`. If it doesn't
   exist, respond: "No expansion tracker found for [country]. Run
   `/employment-legal:expansion-kickoff [country]` to start one."

3. Read the tracker. Show the current state:

```
[Country] Expansion — last updated [date]
Open: [N] | In progress: [N] | Done: [N] | Blocked: [N]

Next priorities (open items with earliest due dates or highest-dependency):
  [item] — owner: [owner]
  [item] — owner: [owner]
  [item] — owner: [owner]
```

4. Ask for updates in a single prompt — do not ask about each item one by one:

   > Which items have moved since we last looked? Tell me what's changed
   > (e.g., "EOR decision made — going with Deel", "outside counsel engaged —
   > call scheduled for Thursday", "PE analysis still open, waiting on tax").
   > You can also add new items or change due dates.

5. Apply updates to the tracker file. For any item newly marked `done`,
   check whether it unblocks other items and flag those as now actionable.

6. If any item has a due date that has passed and is still `open` or
   `in-progress`, flag it:

```
⚠️ Overdue: [item] — was due [date], owner: [owner]
```

7. Write the updated tracker. Confirm:

```
Tracker updated — [N] items closed, [N] still open.
Next priority: [top open item].
```

## Examples

```
/employment-legal:expansion-update Germany
```

```
/employment-legal:expansion-update
(will ask which country if multiple trackers exist)
```

> Detailed tracker schema, item-status rules, and dependency logic live in the
> `international-expansion` reference skill — load it before doing substantive
> work.
````
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© anthropics · Apache-2.0 · https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/HEAD/employment-legal/skills/expansion-update/SKILL.md

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