| name | customize |
| description | Guided customization of your employment practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust jurisdictional footprint, risk posture, escalation contacts, hiring review rules, termination review rules, handbook positions, investigation preferences, or matter workspace paths. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "add a jurisdiction", "update my profile", "edit my config", or "customize".
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| argument-hint | [section name, or describe what you want to change] |
Codex v1 local-input note: This migrated skill supports local files and pasted text by default. References to Drive, CLM IDs, Slack, Westlaw, iManage, Ironclad, eDiscovery, dockets, or other remote systems require a separately configured Codex connector/MCP server. When a connector is unavailable, ask for a local export, local file path, or pasted excerpts. If config/local/codex-for-legal/<practice>/CLAUDE.md is missing, ask the user to run the relevant cold-start-interview or customize skill and copy from config/templates/codex-for-legal/<practice>/CLAUDE.md.
$employment-legal:customize
When this runs
The user typed $employment-legal:customize. They want to change something
in their practice profile — a jurisdiction, a risk posture, an escalation
contact, a handbook position — without re-running the whole cold-start
interview and without hand-editing YAML.
What to do
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Read the config. Read
config/local/codex-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md
(and config/local/codex-for-legal/company-profile.md one
level up). If the plugin config does not exist or still contains
[PLACEHOLDER] values, say:
You haven't run setup yet. Run $employment-legal:cold-start-interview
first — customize is for adjusting a profile you already have.
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Show the customizable map. List what's in the profile, grouped, with a
one-line summary of the current value:
- Company / who you are — name, industry, practice setting, jurisdictions
(shared across all 12 plugins — changes flow through
company-profile.md)
- Jurisdictional footprint — states (and countries) where employees
work, single-state vs. multi-state, and any upcoming expansion. This
drives state-specific supplement logic.
- Risk posture — conservative / middle / aggressive, what each means
for flagging termination risk, restrictive covenant enforceability, and
leave accommodation
- People — HR partners, people team lead, outside counsel, escalation
chain, investigation sponsor
- Hiring review — offer letter template, restrictive covenants
posture, background check vendor, standard at-will language
- Termination review — severance framework, release language, final
pay timing rules per state, high-risk flags
- Handbook — handbook file path, state supplements approach, review
cadence
- Investigation preferences — privileged labeling, interview protocol,
audience-specific summary templates
- Workflow — matter workspaces, leave tracker cadence, expansion
project paths
- Integrations — HRIS / Slack (connector optional; not enabled in v1) / document storage status, fallbacks
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Ask what they want to change.
What would you like to adjust? Pick a section, or describe the change in
your own words.
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Make the change. Show the current value, ask for the new value, explain
what changes downstream, confirm, write it to the config.
Examples:
- Adding Washington to the jurisdictional footprint: "
$employment-legal:wage-hour-qa
and $employment-legal:termination-review will start applying WA rules. /handbook- updates will prompt for a WA supplement. $employment-legal:hiring-review will now
flag non-compete attempts in WA (unenforceable)."
- Severance framework 2 weeks/year → 4 weeks/year: "
/termination- review will use the new baseline in severance calculations."
- Risk posture middle → conservative: "I'll flag more terminations for
escalation, recommend more protective release language, and be stricter
on restrictive covenants."
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For shared-profile changes (company name, industry, jurisdictions,
practice setting, stage): write to
config/local/codex-for-legal/company-profile.md and note:
This change affects all 12 plugins — any plugin that reads your
jurisdiction footprint now sees [new value].
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Close.
Done. Your next output will reflect the change. Anything else? You can
run $employment-legal:customize anytime.
Guardrails
- Never delete a section. If the user wants to "remove" a jurisdiction,
offer to mark it
[Not currently staffed — retain rules for re-entry] and
explain that going to [Not configured] will drop state-specific
flagging.
- Flag internal inconsistency. If the change would make the profile
inconsistent (e.g., CA in the footprint + aggressive non-compete posture;
or risk posture aggressive + "every termination goes to outside counsel"),
flag the tension.
- Flag guardrail degradation. The pre-flight citation check, source
attribution tags, and
[verify] tags on cited statutes are load-bearing —
do not remove. The [review] flag is load-bearing — explain the trade-off
before adjusting.
- One change at a time. Don't re-ask the whole interview.