case-law-research SKILL.md skillA
case-law-research from legalquants/lq-ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add legalquants/lq-ai/case-law-research@git:20260620.658fdbcPins git:20260620.658fdbc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- legalquants/lq-ai
- Path
skills/case-law-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260620.658fdbc, committed Jun 20, 2026
- Size
- 9,461 bytes
- Repository stars
- 152
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when the user asks to find, read, or cite U.S. case law on a question — locating controlling or persuasive decisions via CourtListener, reading the opinion text, and grounding any statement in what the source actually says.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Case-Law Research Conduct a structured search of U.S. case law via CourtListener, read the opinion text, and produce a grounded research report. Every statement in the report must be traceable to retrieved text — do not assert what a case holds unless you have read the relevant passage. ## When this skill applies Apply when the user asks to locate, read, or cite court decisions on a legal question. Common triggers: finding controlling or persuasive authority, confirming whether authority exists, reading specific language from an opinion, assembling citations for a brief or memo. Do not apply this skill when: - The user asks about statutory text, regulations, or administrative guidance. Those are not in the CourtListener corpus; direct the user to the appropriate source. - The user asks about non-U.S. law. CourtListener covers U.S. federal and state courts only; this skill does not extend beyond that coverage. …
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How to install
mdr add legalquants/lq-ai/case-law-research@sha256:e8b9e171a21e6396The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260620.658fdbc, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3jfj7lg5ndmoybs2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 20, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9461 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
legalquants/lq-ai · 152 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3jfj7lg5ndmoybs2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=legalquants/lq-ai/case-law-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e8b9e171a21e6396e3fe8f82365451ce33d9114076a8a5b807b49f12eb5cd6b5
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