| name | hiring-review |
| title | /hiring-review |
| description | Review an offer letter and any restrictive covenants — jurisdiction check included. Substantive rules (covenant enforceability, pay-transparency, salary-history limits, exemption criteria) are researched per hire, not stored. Use when the user says "review this offer", "can we use a non-compete here", "check this offer letter", "hiring in [state]", or attaches an offer. |
| author | anthropics |
| author_url | https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/main/employment-legal/skills/hiring-review |
| license | Apache-2.0 |
| version | 0.1.0 |
| execution_mode | open |
| jurisdiction | us |
| practice | employment |
| language | en |
/hiring-review
- Load
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md → jurisdictional footprint, hiring review triggers, restrictive covenant policy.
- Use the workflow below.
- Check: jurisdiction, classification, restrictive covenants, background check compliance.
- Flag anything that hits the jurisdiction-specific escalation table.
Matter context
Matter context. Check ## Matter workspaces in the practice-level CLAUDE.md. If Enabled is ✗ (the default for in-house users), skip the rest of this paragraph — skills use practice-level context and the matter machinery is invisible. If enabled and there is no active matter, ask: "Which matter is this for? Run /employment-legal:matter-workspace switch <slug> or say practice-level." Load the active matter's matter.md for matter-specific context and overrides. Write outputs to the matter folder at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/matters/<matter-slug>/. Never read another matter's files unless Cross-matter context is on.
Purpose
Offer letters are mostly boilerplate until they're not. The jurisdiction check
and the restrictive-covenant check are where this skill earns its keep. The
skill does not state the law — every jurisdiction-specific rule is researched
and cited at the time of review.
Load context
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md → jurisdictional footprint, hiring review triggers, restrictive
covenant policy, offer letter template location.
Output header
Prepend the work-product header from ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md → ## Outputs (it differs by user role — see ## Who's using this).
Workflow
Step 1: Jurisdiction
Where will this person work? Not where HQ is — where they are.
If remote: their home state/country governs. If hybrid: usually their home
state, but check the offer letter's choice-of-law clause (may or may not hold
up).
Check the jurisdiction table in ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md for this state/country. If it's
not in the table — new jurisdiction — flag that: "First hire in [state]. The
jurisdiction table doesn't cover this. Research needed before offer goes out."
Step 2: Classification
