legal-mdl-audit-ignacio-adrian-lerer
Audits legal AI outputs and workflows for honest compression: unnecessary complexity, false simplicity, excessive caveats, hidden uncertainty and poor cost per legally acceptable output.
npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill legal-mdl-audit-adrian-lerer --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 MDL Audit ## What this skill does This skill reviews whether a legal AI answer, prompt, workflow, benchmark result, contract review, memo, compliance report, or agent chain is as simple as it can safely be. It is inspired by Minimum Description Length: good legal reasoning should explain more with less structure, but never by hiding material uncertainty. ## Audit categories Classify the material as: - APPROVE: lean and still legally safe. - APPROVE WITH CONSTRAINTS: complexity is justified, but reliance needs stated limits. - REWRITE: the output is too complex, repetitive, expensive, or hard to audit. - QUARANTINE: the output is falsely simple and hides material uncertainty. ## Checklist Review: 1. Rules: how many legal propositions are needed? 2. Exceptions: how many carve-outs or qualifications are doing real work? 3. Conditions: what facts, dates, forums, sources or procedural states must hold? 4. Sources: are citations enough, excessive, or missing? 5. Uncertainty: what must remain visible? 6. Workflow cost: how many model/tool/human steps were needed? 7. Output value: did added complexity improve legal acceptability? ## Output format Return: 1. Verdict. 2. Complexity d
- What this skill does
- Audit categories
- Checklist
- Output format
- Rules
What does the legal-mdl-audit-ignacio-adrian-lerer skill do?
Audits legal AI outputs and workflows for honest compression: unnecessary complexity, false simplicity, excessive caveats, hidden uncertainty and poor cost per legally acceptable output.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill legal-mdl-audit-adrian-lerer --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.