| name | brief |
| title | /brief -- Legal Team Briefing |
| description | Generate contextual briefings for legal work — daily summary, topic research, or incident response. Use when starting your day and need a scan of legal-relevant items across email, calendar, and contracts, when researching a specific legal question across internal sources, or when a developing situation (data breach, litigation threat, regulatory inquiry) needs rapid context. |
| author | anthropics |
| author_url | https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/legal/skills/brief |
| license | Apache-2.0 |
| version | 0.1.0 |
| execution_mode | open |
| jurisdiction | general |
| practice | general |
| language | en |
/brief -- Legal Team Briefing
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Generate contextual briefings for legal work. Supports three modes: daily brief, topic brief, and incident brief.
Important: This command assists with legal workflows but does not provide legal advice. Briefings should be reviewed by qualified legal professionals before being relied upon.
Invocation
/brief daily # Morning brief of legal-relevant items
/brief topic [query] # Research brief on a specific legal question
/brief incident [topic] # Rapid brief on a developing situation
If no mode is specified, ask the user which type of brief they need.
Modes
Daily Brief
A morning summary of everything a legal team member needs to know to start their day.
Sources to Scan
Check each connected source for legal-relevant items:
Email (if connected):
- New contract requests or review requests
- Compliance questions or reports
- Responses from counterparties on active negotiations
- Flagged or urgent items from the legal team inbox
- External counsel communications
- Regulatory or legal update newsletters
Calendar (if connected):
- Today's meetings that need legal prep (board meetings, deal reviews, vendor calls)
- Upcoming deadlines this week (contract expirations, filing deadlines, response deadlines)
- Recurring legal team syncs
Chat (if connected):
- Overnight messages in legal team channels
- Direct messages requesting legal input
- Mentions of legal-relevant topics (contract, compliance, privacy, NDA, terms)
- Escalations or urgent requests
CLM (if connected):
- Contracts awaiting review or signature
- Approaching expiration dates (next 30 days)
- Newly executed agreements
CRM (if connected):
- Deals moving to stages that require legal involvement
- New opportunities flagged for legal review
Output Format
## Daily Legal Brief -- [Date]
### Urgent / Action Required
[Items needing immediate attention, sorted by urgency]
### Contract Pipeline
- **Awaiting Your Review**: [count and list]
- **Pending Counterparty Response**: [count and list]
- **Approaching Deadlines**: [items due this week]
### New Requests
[Contract review requests, NDA requests, compliance questions received since last brief]
### Calendar Today
[Meetings with legal relevance and what prep is needed]
### Team Activity
[Key messages or updates from legal team channels]
### This Week's Deadlines
[Upcoming deadlines and filing dates]
### Sources Not Available
[Any sources that were not connected or returned errors]
