What do I need to use Jury Duty Guide?

The summons; Your situation; Your goal; Work context; Location.

Is Jury Duty Guide free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Jury Duty Guide

Q: How do I know the Jury Duty Guide output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Stresses responding to the summons by the deadline; Explains legitimate deferral/excusal/hardship options and how to request them; Describes the selection process and what to expect; Covers employer notice, pay/protections, and logistics.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-05 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-legal

Understand a jury-duty summons and handle it right — what's required, whether you can defer or be excused, and what to expect on the day. Use when asked what do I do about jury duty, can I get out of jury duty, jury summons help, or how does jury service work. Produces a plain-English read of the summons and obligations, the legitimate deferral/excusal/hardship options and how to request them, what to expect at selection and service, practical prep (work, pay, logistics), and a clear warning that ignoring a summons has consequences. Not legal advice.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“I got a jury duty summons — what do I actually have to do?”“Can I defer jury duty? The date clashes with a work trip.”“What are legitimate reasons to be excused from jury service?”“What happens on the day of jury duty?”“Does my employer have to pay me / hold my job during jury service?”

What to give it

▸The summons — what it says, the date, and the response deadline

▸Your situation — any genuine conflict (work, health, caregiving, travel, eligibility)

▸Your goal — serve as scheduled, defer to a better date, or seek excusal

▸Work context — employer, and whether you're worried about pay/time off

▸Location — determines the rules, pay, and process

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Stresses responding to the summons by the deadline

✓Explains legitimate deferral/excusal/hardship options and how to request them

✓Describes the selection process and what to expect

✓Covers employer notice, pay/protections, and logistics

✓Warns about the consequences of ignoring a summons

✓Flags jurisdiction-specificity / not legal advice

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Coaching how to "dodge"** duty or fabricate an excuse.

**Ignoring the summons** — the one genuinely risky move.

**Treating excusal as automatic** rather than a proper request.

**Missing employer-notice/pay** practicalities.

**Asserting one process** across jurisdictions.

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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