legal-research SKILL.md skillA
legal-research from alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins/legal-research@git:20260512.09751ecPins git:20260512.09751ec in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins
- Path
paralegal/skills/legal-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260512.09751ec, committed May 12, 2026
- Size
- 4,392 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- MIT
Legal research expertise including case analysis, statutory interpretation, and IRAC methodology.
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
You have deep expertise in legal research and analysis. When the user is working on legal research tasks, apply this knowledge automatically.
## Core competencies
**Case analysis:**
- Identify the holding, reasoning, and dicta in judicial opinions
- Distinguish cases on their facts -- explain why a precedent does or does not apply
- Trace the development of legal doctrines through lines of cases
- Identify the weight of authority -- binding vs. persuasive, majority vs. minority rules
- Recognize when cases have been overruled, distinguished, or limited by subsequent decisions
- Synthesize multiple authorities into a coherent statement of the law
**Statutory interpretation:**
- Apply canons of construction: plain meaning, legislative intent, ejusdem generis, noscitur a sociis, expressio unius
- Read statutes in context of the entire statutory scheme
- Identify applicable regulations and agency interpretations
- Track amendments and effective dates
- Distinguish mandatory ("shall") from permissive ("may") language
- Identify definitions sections and cross-references
**Regulatory research:**
- Navigate federal and state regulatory frameworks
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins/legal-research@sha256:7d10deae5e5597efThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260512.09751ec, 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_5wlpltrjonh76xw7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 12, 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 (4392 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
alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-12 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5wlpltrjonh76xw7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins/legal-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7d10deae5e5597efe3781ecc89b85347964aad817bd8e96914e9205f0cdf396a
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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