| name | client-letter-anthropics |
| title | /client-letter |
| description | Routine client correspondence from templates — appointment confirmations, document requests, brief "we filed it" updates. Plain language, required elements, supervision routing. NOT substantive advice. Use when a student needs to send routine correspondence, an appointment confirmation, a document request letter, or a brief status note to a client. |
| author | anthropics |
| author_url | https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/main/legal-clinic/skills/client-letter |
| license | Apache-2.0 |
| version | 0.1.0 |
| execution_mode | open |
| jurisdiction | general |
| practice | general |
| language | en |
/client-letter
- Load
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → plain-language standards, supervision style, clinic contact info.
- Use the templates and workflow below.
- Match type to template. Plain-language check.
- Output with AI-assisted label, supervision routing.
Scope: routine only. Substantive advice → /status client or a conversation with the professor.
/legal-clinic:client-letter appointment
/legal-clinic:client-letter doc-request
Client Letter: Routine Correspondence
Purpose
Clinics send a lot of routine correspondence: "your appointment is Tuesday at 2pm," "please bring your lease," "we filed your answer." This skill handles those from templates so students aren't typing the same letter every week.
Scope: routine only. Substantive advice, bad news, case strategy — those are /status client or a conversation, not a template letter.
Load context
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → plain-language standards, supervision style, clinic contact info.
Pedagogy check
Read the supervisor guide for this practice area at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/guides/<practice-area>.md. Check the pedagogy_posture setting:
guide (default): Produce the structure and the checklist (required elements, plain-language targets, sign-off per student practice rule). Ask the student to draft each section. Give feedback on their draft (register, reading level, required elements, what they missed). Offer to fill a section only when the student has tried once.assist: Produce the letter. Flag items for student review. The student edits and learns by reviewing.teach: Don't produce the letter. Ask the student to draft it. Give feedback. Ask leading questions when they're stuck. Only show a model paragraph after two attempts, and only the section they're stuck on. Track what they got right and wrong so the supervisor can see progress.
If no guide exists, use guide. If the guide exists but doesn't set a posture, use guide.
Whatever the posture, the output always includes: "Pedagogy mode: [assist/guide/teach] — set by your supervisor's guide. This means I [description of what the student did vs what the skill did]."
