# flashcards

This skill builds flashcards from your outline or notes, then quizzes you with self-assessment. Useful when you need to recall rule statements cold.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 772 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/law-student/skills/flashcards/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/flashcards

## What it does

The skill does two things: generates cards from a source you point it at, and drills them. The source can be an outline, notes, or a casebook excerpt. Cards live per subject in a markdown file called `cards.md`.

Under the hood it is plain Leitner-style buckets. After each answer you grade yourself — `right`, `partial`, `wrong` or `don't know`. That grade decides which bucket the card moves to and when it comes back: a correct answer pushes it up a level, a miss drops it down. Flags cover `--generate`, `--drill`, `--review`, `--stats` and `--session <n>` for a short run of N cards.

Cards written from model knowledge without a source get flagged `[VERIFY]`. Treat that as a prompt to check the wording against your outline or casebook, because a wrong card drilled to mastery costs more than no card at all. This is not a full spaced-repetition system — if you want Anki, use Anki.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- build cards from an outline for one subject
- drill due cards in a quiz session
- see how cards are spread across buckets
- run a short session of N cards
- flag cards that need checking against a source

## Example prompts
- make flashcards from my contracts outline
- drill flashcards for torts
- show my flashcard stats for this week

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

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```text
---
name: flashcards
description: >
  Generate or drill flashcards for black-letter memorization — Leitner-style
  buckets, per-subject markdown storage, drill mode with self-assessment. Use
  when the user says "drill flashcards", "make flashcards from", "quiz me on
  cards", or wants to memorize rules.
argument-hint: "[subject] [--generate | --drill | --review | --stats | --session <n>]"
---

# /flashcards

1. Load `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/CLAUDE.md` → current classes, weak subjects, outline locations.
2. Apply the framework below.
3. Route by flag:
   - `--generate`: build cards from source (outline path, notes, casebook) per card-writing rules. Write to `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/flashcards/[subject]/cards.md`.
   - `--drill` (default): prioritize due cards + new; show Q, wait for answer, show A, take self-assessment, update buckets + next review.
   - `--review`: browse deck by bucket.
   - `--stats`: progress snapshot; flag stuck cards for verbal drill.
   - `--session <n>`: focused N-card session, prioritized by prior misses + due cards; appends results to `study-plan.yaml` → `session_history`.
4. Apply confidence discipline: flag every card generated from knowledge-without-source with `[VERIFY]`.

---

## Real-matter check

If the question the student is asking sounds like it's about a REAL situation — their lease, their parking ticket, their family's business, their friend's arrest, a real dollar amount, a real deadline, a real party name — stop.

> "This sounds like a real situation, not a hypothetical. I can't give you legal advice, and you can't give it either — you're not a lawyer yet. If this is real, [the person] needs an actual lawyer: legal aid, your school's clinic, a lawyer referral service (your jurisdiction's bar association, law society, or legal aid body), or (if there's money) a private attorney. I'm happy to help you understand the general legal concepts involved, but that's study, not advice."

Watch for: real names, real addresses, real dates, specific dollar amounts, "my landlord/boss/parent/friend," "I got a ticket/letter/notice," deadlines measured in days. Any one of these is a trigger.

## Purpose

Outlines are for synthesis; flashcards are for memorization. The bar exam and most law school exams reward fast rule recall. This skill generates cards from your outline (or notes or casebook excerpts), drills them with light spacing, and tracks what's stuck and what hasn't.

**Not a full SRS system.** Simple Leitner-style buckets. Good enough to study, light enough to maintain. If you want Anki, use Anki; this is for when you're in chat and want a quick drill.

## Confidence discipline

Same rule as the other content-generating skills:

- If generating cards from a source you provide (outline, notes, casebook excerpt), the card's Q and A come from that source. Confident.
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