Investigation Memo Skill for Claude
> Draft or update the privileged investigation memo from the investigation log. Use when an investigation is far enough along to write the first memo cut, or when new data has been added and the existing draft needs updating.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill investigation-memoThe instruction itself
3 sections, as written by the author/investigation-memo
Drafts the first cut of the privileged investigation memo from the log,
or updates an existing draft when new data has been added.
Instructions
- Load the
internal-investigationreference skill and run Mode 4 (Draft or update memo). - If drafting for the first time, warn if high-priority sources are still
open on the checklist.
- If updating, show what changed before rewriting.
- All output is marked PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL — ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT.
Examples
/employment-legal:investigation-memo [matter name]
/employment-legal:investigation-memo [matter name]
(updates existing memo if one exists)
> Detailed memo structure, credibility-assessment framework, and update rules
> live in the internal-investigation reference skill — load it before doing
> substantive work.
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How to use it
Take anthropics/investigation-memo from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.