What problem does it solve?
It helps legal aid staff quickly figure out where to start researching a legal issue so they can spend more time on analysis and less time hunting for initial frameworks and sources.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Roadmap-first research planning: Produces statutory candidates, case-law doctrine areas, agency guidance themes, and secondary-source pointers as leads—not verified authority.
- Jurisdiction and practice-area alignment: Uses loaded office context and an optional practice-area guide to tailor the roadmap to the matter’s jurisdiction and scope.
- Gap identification from existing work: If the staffer has prior research uploaded, it synthesizes what’s already established (subject to verification) and flags remaining gaps.
Use case examples: generating a research roadmap for a housing defense issue, outlining administrative guidance for benefits/eligibility disputes, or planning search terms for free and paid legal research tools.
Quick Start
Use the /legal-aid:research-start command and provide a focused legal issue, such as: "habitability defense to nonpayment eviction in NC".
