Plain Language Letters

anthropics/plain-language-letters

> `/status client` for substantive updates. Split into two more focused skills during the v2 rebuild. Kept as a redirect for migration.

208 tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

8996

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill plain-language-letters

1 sections, as written by the author

This skill was split during the v2 rebuild:

"we filed it" updates) → skills/client-letter/ — use /client-letter [type]

mode — use /status client

Both apply the plain-language standards (reading level, no jargon) from CLAUDE.md.

See the respective SKILL.md files for full workflows.

Copy the folder

Take anthropics/plain-language-letters from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

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.