AgentCounsel
An open, Markdown-native library of legal skills for AI agents — and the legal professionals who supervise them.
What this is
AgentCounsel is a platform-agnostic legal AI skills library. Each skill is a structured workflow that tells an AI agent — or a lawyer — how to scope a task, what inputs to gather, how to organize the work, and what a supervising attorney must verify.
It is not tied to any one AI product, and it carries no build system or runtime. The skills are plain Markdown that works wherever an agent or person can read text. The library supplies process and structure, not the law itself, and is jurisdiction-agnostic.
Start here
- Browse the full skill index — every skill in the library, in one list.
- Jump to a practice area — skills grouped by area of law.
- Platform setup — how to use AgentCounsel in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, repo agents, or a one-off prompt.
Beyond a single skill
Most tasks are one skill. When the work is larger, four surfaces organize it — all plain Markdown, no backend:
- Matter workspaces — a scaffold for one matter (parties, facts, sources, deadlines, outputs, attorney review). Choose a workspace over a single skill when the work is multi-step, document-heavy, high-risk, ongoing, jurisdiction- or deadline-sensitive, or source/citation-heavy. Initialize with
py scripts/init_matter_workspace.py "<matter name>" --practice-area <area>from the canonical template atmatter-workspaces/_template/. - Playbooks — repeatable recipes for a recurring task type (NDA review, demand letter, DPA review), adding default client-position questions, risk-tolerance settings, required sources, and required quality checks on top of a skill.
- Review panels — a supervised multi-pass review of a draft (issue spotter, source/citation, client-position, privilege, business-risk), ending with the attorney gatekeeper. The passes are structured review passes, not autonomous agents and not lawyers; the output stays attorney-supervised draft work product.
- Matter packs — ordered sequences of skills for a recurring matter type.
See WORKFLOW_ROUTER.md, docs/MATTER_WORKSPACES.md, docs/PLAYBOOKS.md, and docs/REVIEW_PANELS.md for when to choose each.
Practice areas
Legal Research
5 skills
Turning research questions into structured, verifiable memos.
Litigation
9 skills
Matter intake, chronologies, demand letters, subpoena triage, depositions, legal holds, privilege logs, claim charts, and brief drafting.
Contracts
5 skills
NDAs, commercial contracts, redlines, and statements of work.
Corporate
6 skills
Board minutes, written consents, closing checklists, due-diligence review, and entity compliance.
Employment
8 skills
Terminations, worker classification, hiring, internal investigations, protected leave, severance, and workplace policies.
Privacy
4 skills
Data processing agreements, impact assessments, data subject requests, and policy gaps.
Product Legal
4 skills
Launch review, marketing claims, terms of service, and AI features.
Regulatory
4 skills
Enforcement risk, rule-change summaries, and compliance gaps.
AI Governance
4 skills
AI use-case intake, vendor terms, model risk, and AI policies.
Intellectual Property
7 skills
Trademark triage, infringement triage, cease-and-desist response, patent and invention triage, DMCA, and open-source licensing.
Financial Crime / AML
2 skills
KYC onboarding review and sanctions / PEP / adverse-media screening review.
Real Estate
9 skills
Commercial lease abstraction and review, amendment reconciliation, purchase and sale agreement review, title and survey objections, diligence and closing checklists, estoppel and SNDA review, and zoning issue-spotting.
Mergers & Acquisitions
10 skills
LOI and term-sheet review, acquisition diligence, purchase-agreement and disclosure-schedule review, indemnity and escrow analysis, third-party consents, and closing and post-closing tracking.
Antitrust / Competition
10 skills
Antitrust risk intake, competitor-collaboration and information-sharing review, pricing-algorithm and distribution-restraint review, merger issue-spotting, gun-jumping checklists, and compliance-policy review.
Securities / Capital Markets
12 skills
Private and public offerings, exemption issue-spotting, offering-document and risk-factor review, SEC filing consistency, Form D and blue-sky tracking, investor-rights and insider-trading review, beneficial-ownership triage, and capital-markets closings.
Tax
10 skills
Tax issue intake, entity classification facts, transaction tax diligence, sales/use tax nexus triage, employment-tax intake, contract tax-provision review, document organization, international tax issue-spotting, and crypto tax intake.
Bankruptcy / Restructuring
12 skills
Bankruptcy and creditor-claim intake, proof-of-claim checklists, automatic-stay and preference issue-spotting, executory-contract review, distressed-M&A diligence and asset-sale checklists, restructuring term-sheet review, plan and disclosure-statement issue-spotting, and DIP financing issue-spotting.
Insurance
12 skills
Insurance policy summaries, coverage issue-spotting, claim chronologies, reservation of rights and tender review, coverage-position outlines, bad-faith risk triage, certificate of insurance and contract insurance-requirements review, subrogation and recovery tracking, and renewal and placement diligence checklists.
Trusts & Estates
12 skills
Estate-planning intake, estate-document summaries, probate document checklists, trust administration and post-death task tracking, fiduciary-duty issue-spotting, beneficiary-designation review, asset and liability inventories, capacity and undue-influence facts organization, estate-litigation chronologies, trust-funding checklists, and estate-tax issue intake.
Family Law
12 skills
Family-law matter and divorce intake, custody and parenting facts chronologies and schedule organization, custody-order review, child-support and spousal-support facts intake, asset/debt schedules, settlement-agreement issue-spotting, discovery tracking, hearing preparation, and domestic-violence safety referral.
Legal Methodology
11 skills
Cross-cutting analytical disciplines: source validation, citation integrity, assumption audit, hallucination red-team, attorney-review gating, privilege/confidentiality, legal prose, and format compliance.
Legal Operations
3 skills
Templated legal responses, meeting briefings, and signature-routing checks.
Setup
19 skills
Cold-start interviews that configure AgentCounsel for a practice group.