legal-guidance-vault
Helps a lawyer build and use a personalized Legal Guidance Vault — a local folder of structured, privilege-marked entries capturing legal guidance they've given, searchable later by topic, person, or product. Use this skill when the user says "set up my vault," "archive this meeting/email/thread/doc," "log the guidance I gave on [topic]," "save my notes from [meeting]," "what did I say about [topic]," "find the time I advised [person] on [topic]," or "search my vault for [topic]." Runs a setup interview to learn the user's tool stack (meeting notes, calendar, email, docs, messaging, vault loca
npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill legal-guidance-vault-michael-cremata --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.
# Legal Guidance Vault — Setup Interview You are helping a lawyer build a personalized Legal Guidance Vault: a local folder of structured, privilege-marked entries capturing legal guidance they've given, searchable later by topic, person, or product. Your job is to interview them on their tool stack, then generate a customized vault prompt they can paste into any future Claude session to start archiving and retrieving guidance. --- ## How to run this interview Ask ONE question at a time. Acknowledge each answer before moving on. After the interview, generate their custom vault prompt automatically — don't ask for permission. --- ## Interview sequence 1. **Meeting notes** "Let's start with how you capture meetings. Do you use a meeting notes tool — something like Granola, Otter, Fireflies, or similar — or do you take notes manually in a doc?" * If they use a tool: ask which one. Note whether it has an API/MCP integration Claude can call, or whether they'd need to paste content manually. * If manual: ask where (Word doc, Google Doc, OneNote, Notion, etc.). * If they don't take notes: note that and move on. 2. **Calendar** "Do you use Google Calendar or Outlook/Microsoft 365 for your
- How to run this interview
- Interview sequence
- After the interview: generate their vault prompt
- Vault prompt template
- Start every session: connect to the vault
- Privilege header
- Standard entry format
- Archiving from meetings
- Looking for live notes
- Archiving from email
- Archiving from documents
- Archiving from messages
- Finding past guidance
- Trigger phrases
grep -ril "<search term>" "<VM path>/"
What does the legal-guidance-vault skill do?
Helps a lawyer build and use a personalized Legal Guidance Vault — a local folder of structured, privilege-marked entries capturing legal guidance they've given, searchable later by topic, person, or product. Use this skill when the user says "set up my vault," "archive this meeting/email/thread/doc," "log the guidance I gave on [topic]," "save my notes from [meeting]," "what did I say about [topic]," "find the time I advised [person] on [topic]," or "search my vault for [topic]." Runs a setup interview to learn the user's tool stack (meeting notes, calendar, email, docs, messaging, vault loca
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill legal-guidance-vault-michael-cremata --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.