isds-research
Compliant, retrieval-grounded research over investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) awards and decisions. Use when the user asks about ICSID / investment-treaty arbitration cases, awards, or doctrines (fair and equitable treatment, expropriation, jurisdiction, costs, annulment, etc.) and wants answers grounded in the actual document text with pinpoint citations. Identifies the correct document on the case page, confirms it against the PDF's own first pages, retrieves primary documents on demand from ICSID, PCA, etc., never scrapes or hosts a corpus in violation of applicable terms, and cites
npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill isds-research-cameron-russell --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# ISDS Research Answer questions about ISDS cases by retrieving the **primary documents on demand** and grounding every legal statement in the retrieved text, with pinpoint (paragraph / page) citations. This is a research aid, **not legal advice**. **Intended users:** lawyers, arbitration practitioners, academics, and students who need *verifiable* ISDS research — every output is research support for the user's own professional judgment: the tool retrieves, cites, and discloses; the user analyzes and concludes. ## Golden rules (read first) 1. **Ground, don't recall.** Every holding, quote, or pinpoint cite MUST come from text you retrieved *this session*. If it isn't in the retrieved text, say "not found in the retrieved document" — never fill the gap from memory. This is the anti-hallucination guarantee. **Framework law too:** a statement of treaty, Convention, or arbitration-rules law (e.g. "Art. 52(6) resubmission presupposes annulment", "improper constitution is the Art. 52(1)(a) ground") made without retrieving the provision's text must carry a basis label ("per general knowledge based on training data and/or websearch — provision text not retrieved this session"); where such
- Golden rules (read first)
- First run: the UNCTAD Excel (walk the user through one download)
- First run: preferences (ask once — language + where to save)
- Workflow
- Worked example (single-document question, end to end)
- What this tool can answer — and how completely (say so every time)
- Research folders (persist each topic's memo + documents)
- Memo house style
- Charts, tables, and other non-memo deliverables
- Source routing (which source answers what)
- Failure-mode guards
- Platform notes
- Attribution and disclaimer
- Notes
What does the isds-research skill do?
Compliant, retrieval-grounded research over investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) awards and decisions. Use when the user asks about ICSID / investment-treaty arbitration cases, awards, or doctrines (fair and equitable treatment, expropriation, jurisdiction, costs, annulment, etc.) and wants answers grounded in the actual document text with pinpoint citations. Identifies the correct document on the case page, confirms it against the PDF's own first pages, retrieves primary documents on demand from ICSID, PCA, etc., never scrapes or hosts a corpus in violation of applicable terms, and cites
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill isds-research-cameron-russell --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, a repository with 618 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.