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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.
By brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills (GitHub) · research · 5,016 stars · scanned at commit 8684584
9 legal research skills. Trigger: legal research, case law analysis, regulatory compliance. Design: legal databases, citation networks, and judicial analytics tools.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Sends data to these websites: api.case.law, www.courtlistener.com
The author does not mention this. Expected for a research skill.
Found in 40 places.
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- skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/caselaw-access-api/SKILL.md, line 40
curl "https://api.case.law/v1/cases/?decision_date_min=2015-01-01&decision_date_max=2025-12-31" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/caselaw-access-api/SKILL.md, line 43
curl -H "Authorization: Token YOUR_API_KEY" \ - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/caselaw-access-api/SKILL.md, line 66
curl "https://api.case.law/v1/courts/" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/caselaw-access-api/SKILL.md, line 69
curl "https://api.case.law/v1/jurisdictions/" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/caselaw-access-api/SKILL.md, line 72
curl "https://api.case.law/v1/reporters/" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/caselaw-access-api/SKILL.md, line 91
resp = requests.get(f"{BASE_URL}/cases/", params=params) - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 35
curl "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/opinions/?q=first+amendment" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 38
curl -H "Authorization: Token YOUR_TOKEN" \ - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 64
curl "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/opinions/?q=privacy+fourth+amendment&court=scotus&ordering=-date_filed" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 89
curl "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/dockets/?q=antitrust&court=scotus&ordering=-date_filed" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 108
curl "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/courts/?jurisdiction=F" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 129
curl "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/people/?q=ginsburg" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 149
curl "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q=net+neutrality&type=o" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 172
resp = requests.get("https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/opinions/", params=params) - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 193
resp = requests.get("https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/", params={**params, "type": "o"}) - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 204
curl "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/people/?court=scotus&ordering=-date_nominated" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/legal-research-guide/SKILL.md, line 122
response = requests.get(
and 20 more places
Runs commands on your computer
The author does not mention this.
Found in 15 places.
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- skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 64
curl "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/opinions/?q=privacy+fourth+amendment&court=scotus&ordering=-date_filed" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 89
curl "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/dockets/?q=antitrust&court=scotus&ordering=-date_filed" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 108
curl "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/courts/?jurisdiction=F" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 129
curl "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/people/?q=ginsburg" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 149
curl "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q=net+neutrality&type=o" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/courtlistener-api/SKILL.md, line 204
curl "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/people/?court=scotus&ordering=-date_nominated" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/opencontracts-guide/SKILL.md, line 23
git clone https://github.com/Open-Source-Legal/OpenContracts.git - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/uk-legislation-api/SKILL.md, line 50
curl "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/data.xml" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/uk-legislation-api/SKILL.md, line 70
curl "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/1/data.xml" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/uk-legislation-api/SKILL.md, line 86
curl "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/id?title=equality+act" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/uk-legislation-api/SKILL.md, line 100
curl "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/changes/affected/ukpga/2010/15/data.feed" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law/uk-legislation-api/SKILL.md, line 113
curl "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/2015-01-01/data.xml"
Downloads and installs other software
The author does not mention this.
Found in 1 place.
Safer alternatives
Low-risk skills in the same category (research) that look related. Check that one does what you need.
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'law-skills' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'law-skills' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named law-skills already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8684584e7d1127940f018157d2c579974fae8f79' -- 'skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/law' ~/.agents/skills/'law-skills' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'law-skills' ~/.claude/skills/'law-skills' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-10 | 8684584 | 75 |
| 2026-11-08 | bfa0a6e | 75 |
| 2026-11-07 | bfa0a6e | 75 |