# feature-risk-assessment

Takes one risk apart: what could go wrong, how likely, how bad, what already limits the damage. Built for the cases a table row can't hold.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 602 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/product-legal/skills/feature-risk-assessment/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/feature-risk-assessment

## What it does

The skill fires when a launch review turns up something that needs more than a line item: a novel AI feature, a children's product, an area a regulator is watching. Instead of a broad checklist you get a standalone 2-4 page document covering 2-5 distinct risks. Each one gets a scenario, who gets hurt, a likelihood and severity rating with a stated reason, existing mitigations, the gap, and residual risk.

Then come regulatory landscape and precedent sections where they apply, a table of 2-3 options with risk reduction and cost, and a single recommendation that names the trade-off. Before finalising, the skill checks the risk calibration in the practice `CLAUDE.md` — a risk rated high at one company may be medium at another.

Citations to cases, statutes or enforcement actions come from the model and need verification in a legal research tool before the document reaches a decisionmaker. A fabricated enforcement action is worse than no assessment at all. The skill runs on practice-level context; matter workspaces load only when `## Matter workspaces` is set to `Enabled`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal --path product-legal/skills/feature-risk-assessment
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill feature-risk-assessment -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/product-legal/skills/feature-risk-assessment/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- dig into a single risk beyond a table row
- give leadership a structured answer on what the danger is
- rate likelihood and severity with a stated reason
- compare launch options by risk reduction and cost
- record residual risk and who accepts it

## Example prompts
- deep dive on this risk
- risk assessment for the recommendation feature
- what could go wrong with this feature

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

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---
name: feature-risk-assessment
description: >
  Deeper risk assessment for a single feature or product area when the launch
  review found something that needs more than a line item. Structured analysis:
  what could go wrong, how likely, how bad, what mitigates it. Use when user
  says "deep dive on this risk", "risk assessment for [feature]", "what could
  go wrong with", or when launch-review flags a novel issue.
---

# Feature Risk Assessment

## Matter context

**Matter context.** Check `## Matter workspaces` in the practice-level CLAUDE.md. If `Enabled` is `✗` (the default for in-house users), skip the rest of this paragraph — skills use practice-level context and the matter machinery is invisible. If enabled and there is no active matter, ask: "Which matter is this for? Run `/product-legal:matter-workspace switch <slug>` or say `practice-level`." Load the active matter's `matter.md` for matter-specific context and overrides. Write outputs to the matter folder at `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/product-legal/matters/<matter-slug>/`. Never read another matter's files unless `Cross-matter context` is `on`.

---

## Purpose

The launch review is broad. This is deep. When a single issue needs more than a table row — a novel AI feature, a children's product, something a regulator is actively looking at — this skill produces a standalone assessment.

Not every launch needs one. Most don't. This is for the 10% where "PIA done, shipped" isn't the right level of scrutiny.

## When to run this

- Launch review found a pattern that's **not in the calibration table** (novel)
- Launch review found something in the **"usually blocks"** category
- GC or leadership asked "what's the risk here" and wants more than a one-liner
- The feature is in an area with **active regulatory attention** (AI, children, biometric, health)
- Someone outside legal is worried and a structured answer would help

If none of the above, the launch review is enough. Don't generate paperwork for its own sake.

## Structure

### 1. What we're assessing

One paragraph. What the feature does, what's new about it, why it got escalated to a full assessment.

### 2. The risks

For each distinct risk (aim for 2-5, not 15):

```markdown
### Risk [N]: [Short name]

**Scenario:** [What would have to happen for this to go wrong. Be specific —
not "data breach" but "the recommendation algo surfaces a user's sensitive
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