disputes-and-legal-holds SKILL.md skillA
disputes-and-legal-holds from cbrock84/headcount is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/disputes-and-legal-holds@git:20260916.e72e404Pins git:20260916.e72e404 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cbrock84/headcount
- Path
plugins/legal-risk/skills/disputes-and-legal-holds/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260916.e72e404, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 1, 2026
- Size
- 4,556 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
Handles a dispute from the first sign of it — recognizing when preservation obligations attach, issuing and scoping a legal hold, suspending automatic deletion across every system that holds relevant material, preserving privilege, managing outside counsel and cost, and evaluating settlement against the real cost of continuing. Use this to respond to a claim or demand letter, issue a hold, work out which systems the hold has to reach, or decide whether to fight.
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
# Disputes and legal holds The decisions that determine how a dispute goes are made in the first week, usually by people who do not know a dispute has started. **This structures the operational response. Procedural obligations and their deadlines vary by jurisdiction and forum — get counsel engaged early, and let them drive strategy.** ## Preservation attaches earlier than most people expect The obligation to preserve begins when litigation is reasonably anticipated — which can be a demand letter, a threat made in a meeting, a regulator's inquiry, or an internal complaint serious enough that a claim is foreseeable. It does not wait for a filing. **Destruction after that point is treated far more seriously than the underlying dispute.** Routine automatic deletion continuing through a hold is the common version, and "it was our normal policy" is not the defense people assume. ## Issue the hold in writing, and make it reach the systems A hold has two halves and organizations routinely do only the first. - **Notify the people.** Written, naming the matter in general terms, describing the categories of …
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How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/disputes-and-legal-holds@sha256:44341396c9337121The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.e72e404, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 1, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 15 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260916.e72e404 latest | 2026-09-16 | e72e404 | 4,556 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.d41b3ae | 2026-09-01 | d41b3ae | 4,217 B | A | view |
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 (4556 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
cbrock84/headcount · 2,543 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fqx4oiuo6bo5ikqe GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/disputes-and-legal-holds GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/44341396c9337121081d0f792e37d32cf1c5843eab1beabda5275f25c7e89ff1
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