Guide students through drafting case briefs with uncertainty flags.
npx skills add https://github.com/yachela/claude-for-legal-ar --skill case-brief-yachela
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: case-brief Source: https://github.com/yachela/claude-for-legal-ar/tree/main/law-student/skills/case-brief Command: npx skills add https://github.com/yachela/claude-for-legal-ar --skill case-brief-yachela
Producing accurate case briefs from reading—without skipping the hard parts—is time-consuming and error-prone, especially when you only know the case name or when your understanding of the holding is shaky.
Ask the skill to brief a specific case you pasted, using your preferred brief format from your law-student CLAUDE.md.
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Case brief scaffolding guides you through drafting Facts, Procedural Posture, Issue, Holding, Reasoning, Rule, and Notes instead of writing the brief for you. It actively extracts holding and reasoning from pasted case text to support your own outline creation.
You can use a case name to generate a legal brief, but the skill flags uncertain lines with [UNCERTAIN] and [VERIFY] markers instead of fabricating legal conclusions. It requires explicit citation verification when full text is unavailable.
The best way to prepare case outlines and extract holdings for exams is using Drill-me mode, which tests holding recall first to support litigation and exam study. This mode requires active student drafting while applying mode-aware scaffolding.
Yes, the case brief skill supports custom formats from your law-student CLAUDE.md file. You can ask it to brief a pasted case using your preferred brief format for personalized outline preparation.
Holding extraction works by parsing pasted case text to identify the court's ruling and reasoning, then guiding you to draft the holding yourself. If the text is missing or incomplete, it applies uncertainty flags rather than guessing the legal conclusions.
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