
customize
Guided customization of your commercial contracts practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust risk posture, escalation contacts, playbook positions, NDA triage preferences, house style, review preferences, or matter workspace paths. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "update my profile", "edit my playbook", "tune my config", or "customize".
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Install
Works with every agent the skills CLI supports.
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill customize- 01
Install
Run the command in your project. The CLI asks which agents to install for.
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Describe the task
Ask your agent for something this skill covers. It loads customize automatically when relevant.
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Review the result
The agent follows the SKILL.md steps, scripts and references bundled with the skill.
SKILL.md
The instructions your agent reads when the skill is triggered.
/customize
When this runs
The user typed /commercial-legal:customize. They want to change something
in their practice profile — a risk posture, an escalation contact, a playbook
position, a jurisdiction, an output format — without re-running the whole
cold-start interview and without hand-editing YAML.
What to do
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Read the config. Read
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/CLAUDE.md(and~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/company-profile.mdone level up). If the plugin config does not exist or still contains[PLACEHOLDER]values, say:You haven't run setup yet. Run
/commercial-legal:cold-start-interviewfirst — customize is for adjusting a profile you already have. -
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, jurisdictions, stage, practice
setting, sales-side vs. purchasing-side orientation (shared across all
12 plugins — changes flow through
company-profile.md) - Risk posture — conservative / middle / aggressive, what each means for fallback positions and escalation triggers
- People — escalation chain, approvers by dollar threshold and by clause type
- Playbook positions — the substantive contract positions: liability caps, indemnity scope, IP ownership, data protection, termination, auto-renewal, price escalation, and the fallbacks for each
- NDA triage preferences — what green / yellow / red looks like for inbound NDAs
- Review preferences — redline style, explanation depth, whether to produce a stakeholder summary by default
- House style — document format, signature block, renewal-alert channel, deviation-log format
- Workflow — matter workspace paths, intake path, renewal watcher cadence
- Integrations — Ironclad / DocuSign / Slack / document storage status, fallbacks
- Company / who you are — name, industry, jurisdictions, stage, practice
setting, sales-side vs. purchasing-side orientation (shared across all
12 plugins — changes flow through
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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:
- Liability cap fallback 12 months → 6 months: "
/reviewwill now flag anything above 6 months as a deviation; existing deal-debrief entries stay as logged." - New escalation approver: "Any redline exceeding your own authority
will now route to this approver —
/escalation-flaggerwill include them by default for the matching risk band." - Risk posture middle → aggressive: "I'll accept more vendor-friendly
positions without flagging them and shift the
[review]bar higher."
- Liability cap fallback 12 months → 6 months: "
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For shared-profile changes (company name, industry, jurisdictions, practice setting, stage): write to
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/company-profile.mdand 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
/commercial-legal:customizeanytime.
Guardrails
- Never delete a section. If the user wants to "remove" something, set it
to
[Not configured]and explain what that means for the plugin's behavior. - Flag internal inconsistency. If the change would make the profile inconsistent (e.g., risk posture aggressive + "every redline needs GC approval"; or "sales-side" + a purchasing-side playbook position), flag the tension and ask which one they want.
- Flag guardrail degradation. If the user asks to turn off a guardrail
(drop the
[review]flag, skip the privilege header, remove[verify]tags), explain what the guardrail protects against and confirm they understand the trade-off. The[review]flag, source attribution tags, and[verify]tags on cited statutes are load-bearing and should not be removed. - One change at a time. Don't re-ask the whole interview.
FAQ
What does the customize skill do?
Guided customization of your commercial contracts practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust risk posture, escalation contacts, playbook positions, NDA triage preferences, house style, review preferences, or matter workspace paths. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "update my profile", "edit my playbook", "tune my config", or "customize".
How do I install customize?
Run npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill customize in your project. The skills CLI detects the agents you use and copies the skill into the right folder. For Claude Code you can also place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/customize/ (personal) or .claude/skills/customize/ (project).
Which AI agents can use customize?
Any agent that supports the open Agent Skills format (a folder with a SKILL.md file), including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cline, OpenCode and more.
Is customize safe to install?
No partner security audit is available yet. Skills can run commands and scripts, so read the SKILL.md and any bundled files before installing.
Who maintains customize?
It is published by anthropics in anthropics/claude-for-legal, and it is an official skill from the maker of the technology it covers. It has 605 recorded installs.
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