What do I need to use Legal Brief?

Brief type; Legal issue or question; Jurisdiction; Relevant facts; Relevant law or cases; Audience.

Is Legal Brief 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.

Legal Brief

Q: How do I know the Legal Brief output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Issue is stated as a specific legal question (not a general topic); Brief answer appears before the analysis (conclusion upfront); Disputed facts are explicitly flagged; Areas of legal uncertainty are noted (not hidden in confident language).

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-08 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-legal

Draft a structured legal brief, case summary, or legal argument outline. Use when asked to write a legal brief, case note, legal memo, argument outline, or position paper. Produces a structured document using IRAC format (Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion).

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Draft a legal memo on [issue]”“Write a legal brief arguing [position]”“Summarise the legal position on [topic]”“Write a letter before action for [situation]”

What to give it

▸Brief type — legal memo / case summary / argument outline / position paper / letter before action

▸Legal issue or question

▸Jurisdiction — England & Wales / US / EU / Other

▸Relevant facts

▸Relevant law or cases — if known — otherwise flagged as [RESEARCH NEEDED]

▸Audience — internal memo / court submission / client letter

✅ 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.

✓Issue is stated as a specific legal question (not a general topic)

✓Brief answer appears before the analysis (conclusion upfront)

✓Disputed facts are explicitly flagged

✓Areas of legal uncertainty are noted (not hidden in confident language)

✓Caveats section lists what would change the analysis

✓Disclaimer is included

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not present uncertain legal positions with confident language — areas of legal ambiguity must be flagged explicitly, not smoothed over

Do not omit the disclaimer — every legal brief output must include the professional review caveat before the user treats it as advice

Do not structure the brief chronologically — IRAC format (Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion) must be used regardless of how the user framed the request

Do not cite cases or statutes from memory without flagging them as [REQUIRES VERIFICATION] — hallucinated citations are worse than no citations

Do not conflate jurisdiction — legal positions in England & Wales, US, and EU can differ materially; always confirm jurisdiction before stating the rule

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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