client-comms-log

name	client-comms-log
title	$legal-clinic:client-comms-log
description	Log a client communication — call, email, text, letter, in-person, voicemail. Append-only per-case record with dated entries, direction, medium, summary, action items. Works alongside $legal-clinic:client-letter and $legal-clinic:status client. Use when logging a call or client email, reviewing a communication log, or asking "what did we tell [client] last time".
author	alexchlou
author_url	https://github.com/alexchlou/codex-for-legal/tree/main/plugins/legal-clinic/skills/client-comms-log
license	Apache-2.0
version	0.1.0
execution_mode	open
jurisdiction	general
practice	general
language	en

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.

$legal-clinic:client-comms-log

1. Use the workflow below.
2. Require case-id (prompt if not provided).
3. Route by flag:
   • --add (default): capture direction, medium, student, summary, action items, follow-up due. Confirm with user. Append (prepend most-recent-first) to config/local/codex-for-legal/legal-clinic/client-comms/[case-id]/log.md.
   • --read: show the most recent N entries.
   • --summary: one-paragraph condensed read.
   • --patterns: scan for unanswered comms, missed follow-ups, language gaps, tone shifts, contact gaps. Supervision-oriented.
4. Integration: offer $legal-clinic:deadlines --add if the log establishes a deadline; route to $legal-clinic:semester-handoff via --summary when relevant.

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Client Communications Log

Purpose

Four reasons to keep this log:

1. Malpractice defense. If a client claims "no one ever told me [X]," a dated entry showing otherwise is the answer. Clinical professors carry professional liability on student work; contemporaneous records protect them.
2. Continuity at handoff. The next semester's student takes over and reads the log; they don't re-ask the client questions already answered.
3. Supervision visibility. Five unreturned voicemails over six weeks is a pattern. The log makes patterns visible that individual students might not flag on their own.
4. File retention. Law school clinics have obligations to maintain complete client files. Communication history is part of that.

Light. Append-only. The student's job is to write a two-sentence entry after every contact; the skill formats it and appends.

Load context

• config/local/codex-for-legal/legal-clinic/client-comms/[case-id]/log.md (if exists) — append target