chronology

Builds litigation chronologies from matter documents with significance tags and privilege flags.

Updated Jun 17, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/tk1cntt/PhapChe --skill chronology-tk1cntt
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: chronology
Source: https://github.com/tk1cntt/PhapChe/tree/main/docs/claude-for-legal-main/litigation-legal/skills/chronology
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/tk1cntt/PhapChe --skill chronology-tk1cntt

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Litigators spend hours manually assembling timelines from productions, emails, and matter files, and risk privilege waiver or unsourced facts when doing it under deadline. This Skill extracts dated events from declared document sources, de-duplicates them, and tags each by significance against the matter's case theory. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Source-driven extraction: Pulls dated events from PDFs, emails, productions, and eDiscovery platforms (Everlaw, Relativity, DISCO, Aurora), with per-event source attribution and Bates citations. - Privilege gate and flags: Forces a privilege posture decision before extraction and tags entries as ok, flag, or review so flagged material is excluded from statement-of-facts variants by default. - Theory-tagged output: Tags events 🔴/🟡/⚪ against the matter's pivot fact from plaintiff or defense framing, with gaps analysis and versioned incremental rebuilds. - Use Case: An associate receives a Bates-numbered production and asks for a chronology; the Skill extracts events, merges duplicates across documents, flags privileged sources, and writes a working chronology plus a statement-of-facts variant. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to build a chronology for a matter slug from the production documents you have uploaded, choosing matter or documents mode.

Frequently Asked Questions about chronology

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I build a litigation chronology from a document production?

Point the Skill at the production directory or Bates manifest and run it in documents mode. It extracts dated events, de-duplicates them across documents, tags significance against the case theory, and writes a working chronology with source citations.

What is the difference between matter mode and documents mode?

Matter mode reads the matter's case theory from matter.md and pulls from declared document-storage sources like Drive, SharePoint, or Gmail. Documents mode works from an eDiscovery export or Bates-numbered production and is exempt from the matter-intake conflicts gate.

Does the chronology skill handle privileged documents?

Yes. A Step 0 privilege gate requires choosing a posture before extraction: cleared, mixed, or abort. In mixed mode every entry gets a priv flag of ok, flag, or review, and flagged entries are excluded from statement-of-facts output by default.

Can I generate a statement of facts from a chronology?

Yes. The statement-of-facts variant filters to key and relevant events and presents them as chronological prose with record citations. Privilege-flagged entries are excluded unless you explicitly acknowledge inclusion with the include-flagged option.

What happens if document sources are missing or incomplete?

Unreachable or thin sources are named explicitly in the Gaps section rather than silently skipped. The Skill will not fill gaps from web search or model knowledge without asking, and any such entries are tagged for verification.

Why does the skill refuse to run on my matter?

In matter mode the Skill checks the matter log for a conflicts-cleared intake record. If the matter slug is not logged, it refuses and directs you to run matter-intake first, since the conflicts check is an unbypassable gate.