# ramp

Guides students through clinic procedures, commands and practice work before real cases. It also reinforces how to check drafts and research leads.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 577 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/legal-clinic/skills/ramp/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ramp

## What it does

ramp reads the clinic profile and uploaded handbook, then runs an interactive onboarding session. It covers the clinic’s scope, case handling, supervision process, and commands for client intake, drafts, research and status updates.

The skill walks through a mock intake, a practice draft and a research roadmap. It explains what the student must check before relying on an output: citations, local jurisdiction details and `[UNCERTAIN: ...]` flags. Generated work is treated as a starting point.

\`~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md` must be set up before use. If it still contains placeholders, a professor needs to run `/legal-clinic:cold-start-interview` first; check this before starting onboarding. The `--card` option produces a one-page reference card.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- run a clinic onboarding session for students
- practise a mock client intake
- review a first document draft
- build a legal research roadmap
- teach citation and uncertainty checks

## Example prompts
- Run `/legal-clinic:ramp` and walk me through the clinic onboarding.
- Start `/legal-clinic:ramp --card` and create the one-page reference card.
- Guide me through a mock intake and explain what I need to verify before sending work for review.

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

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````text
---
name: ramp
description: >
  Student semester onboarding — clinic procedures, tool walkthrough, practice
  exercises before real cases. Reads the handbook the professor uploaded at
  setup and teaches it interactively. Use when a new clinic student says
  "onboard me", "I'm new to the clinic", "getting started", or at the start of
  each semester; pass --card for the one-page reference.
argument-hint: "[--card for the one-page reference]"
---

# /ramp

1. Check `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md` is set up. If placeholders: "Ask [professor] to run `/legal-clinic:cold-start-interview` first."
2. Use the walkthrough below.
3. Walk through: clinic context (from handbook) → commands → practice exercises (fake intake, practice draft, research roadmap) → verification habits.
4. `--card`: generate the one-page reference card.

```
/legal-clinic:ramp
```

```
/legal-clinic:ramp --card
```

---

# Ramp: Semester Onboarding

## Purpose

Every semester, the clinic loses its entire workforce and rebuilds from scratch. New students need to learn procedures, case management, filing conventions, and practice-area basics before they're useful. Traditionally that takes weeks of reading PDFs and asking the professor the same questions every semester.

This skill is the guided walkthrough. It reads what the professor uploaded during cold-start — the handbook, the filing guides, the local rules — and teaches it interactively, with practice exercises so students try the tools in a low-stakes setting before a real client is on the line.

**Audience: students.** Professors don't run this (they run `/cold-start-interview`).

## Load context

`~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md` → clinic profile, practice areas, jurisdiction, handbook path, supervision style, practice-area templates.

If that file is missing or still has placeholders: "The clinic hasn't been set up yet. Ask [supervising professor] to run `/cold-start-interview` first."

## The walkthrough

### Opening

> Welcome to [clinic name]. I'm going to walk you through how this clinic works and how to use these tools — about twenty minutes, and you can pause anytime. By the end you'll have run a practice intake, drafted a practice document, and you'll know what to do when you get your first real case.
>
> One thing up front: everything I generate is a starting point, not a final answer. You do the analysis. [Professor] reviews your work [per supervision style]. I handle the formatting and the first draft so you spend your time on the lawyering, not on writing "Dear Judge" for the twentieth time.

### Part 1: This clinic (5 min)

Read from `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md` and the ingested handbook. Cover, interactively:

- **Practice areas** — what the clinic handles, what it doesn't (and where to refer if someone walks in with an out-of-scope issue)
- **Clients** — who they are, what they're facing, languages
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