Help a clinic supervisor author a practice-area guide that configures how student-facing skills behave — intake questions, pedagogy posture (assist / guide / teach), review gates, cross-plugin checks, and local rules. Use when a supervising attorney wants to build or revise a per-practice-area guide

/build guide 1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude for legal/legal clinic/CLAUDE.md → role (must be Supervising attorney), practice areas, jurisdiction. 2. Use the workflow below. 3. If the user is not the supervising attorney, stop and redirect (students run /legal clinic:ramp ). 4. Walk through: practice area → intake questions → pedagogy posture → review gates → cross plugin checks → local rules. 5. Write ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude for legal/legal clinic/guides/<practice area .md . Create the guides/ directory if needed. 6. Offer a test run — run /legal clinic:draft under the configured posture so the supervisor sees what a student sees. Multiple guides are fine — one per practice area. Re run this command to revise. Edit the guide file directly for quick changes. Build Guide: Supervisor Authored Practice Area Guide Purpose The supervisor guide is the dial that turns student facing skills from "get the work done" into "teach the student to do the work." Every student facing skill in this plugin reads the guide before producing output: intake asks the questions the supervisor wants asked, drafting skills pick a pedagogy posture (assist / guide / teach), review gates route to the supervisor on the items the supervisor cares about, and cross plugin checks wrap other plugin skills in a supervision layer. This skill helps a supervisor author that guide in 5 10 minutes per practice area. The guide is plain markdown at a well known path — edit it by hand anytime. Audience: the supervising attorney. Not students. Students run /legal clinic:ramp and then the student facing skills; they don't author guides. Work product header Every output from this skill is a supervisor facing configuration artifact, not student work product. Do NOT prepend [AI ASSISTED DRAFT — requires student analysis and attorney review] to the output of this skill — that label is for student outputs. The guide file this skill writes is a supervisor configuration document; it sits next to CLAUDE.md in the plugin config directory, not in a matter workspace. Key things your guide should address Offer this as a checklist the supervisor can skip through or use as the table of contents for the interview: What does a student need to know before they touch a case? (Ethics rules, confidentiality, their scope of authority) What are the 3 5 most common mistakes students make in this practice area, and how should the skill catch them? When must the student stop and get your sign off? (Filing, sending to a client, making a representation, advising on strategy) What's the reading level for client communications? (6th grade is the usual target for legal aid) What local rules, forms, or deadlines should every student know? When should the skill teach vs. do? (Per document type — you can set a default and override per type) Walk through the checklist at the start of the interview so the supervisor knows what's coming and can flag which items they already have strong views on versus which they want to think through. Skip any item the supervisor waves off; note it in the guide as "not specified — skill uses defaults." Workflow Step 1: Check role This is a supervisor skill. Read ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude for legal/legal clinic/CLAUDE.md → Who's using this → Role. If the role is not "Supervising attorney," say: This skill is for supervisors — it configures how the student facing skills behave. If you're the supervisor, make sure your practice profile role is set to "Supervising attorney" in /legal clinic:cold start interview . If you're a student, this isn't the right skill for you — run /legal clinic:ramp to onboard, or ask your supervisor to author a guide for your clinic. Stop if the role is not supervising attorney. Step 2: Which practice area? What clinic is this guide for? (Immigration / Housing / Family / Transactional / Criminal defense / Consumer / Other) If the answer is "Other," ask for a short name — that name becomes the filename (lowercase, hyphenated: immigration removal defense.md , transactional nonprofit.md , etc.). Check the practice areas listed in CLAUDE.md → Clinic profile → Practice areas. If the chosen practice area is not listed there, note it: "I'll write this guide, but your practice profile doesn't list [area] as one of your clinic's practice areas. That's fine — you can add it later with /legal clinic:cold start interview redo — but the student facing skills won't route intakes to this area until the profile lists it." If a guide already exists at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude for legal/legal clinic/guides/<practice area .md , offer: "A guide for [area] already exists at [path]. Do you want to (a) revise it section by section, (b) start fresh and overwrite, or (c) see what's there first?" Step 3: Intake questions What should students ask a new client for this clinic type? I'll start with a generic intake for [practice area] — tell me what to add, remove, or change. What red flags should students look for? What makes a case a good fit for your clinic vs. a referral out? Show the generic intake defaults for the practice area — use the same defaults that client intake uses (Immigration: status, entry, prior applications, country conditions, family, criminal history, timeline urgency; Housing: housing type, what happened, lease, habitability, timeline; Family: relationship, issue, children, safety, orders, hearings; Consumer: debt type, contacts, documentation, filings, deadlines). For practice areas outside those four, ask the supervisor to describe the intake from scratch. Capture: questions to add, questions to remove, questions to rephrase, red flags (a list), good fit criteria (what makes this a case the clinic takes vs. refers out). Step 4: Pedagogy posture How much should the skills do vs. how much should the student do? Guide (default): The skill produces structure; students fill in substance; the skill gives feedback. Balanced — most clinics start here. Assist: The skill produces work product; students review and learn by editing. Fastest, least pedagogical. Good for high volume clinics or when deadlines are tight. Teach: The skill doesn't produce work product — students draft, the skill gives Socratic feedback and only shows models after two attempts. Slowest, most pedagogical. Good for seminar style clinics or when learning is the primary goal. You can set this per document type (e.g., teach for client letters, assist for file memos). Capture the default posture for the practice area, and any per document overrides. Per document settings the skills read: pedagogy posture default: assist guide teach pedagogy posture client letter: [override] pedagogy posture memo: [override] pedagogy posture draft: [override] If the supervisor names a document type the skills don't currently have, record the intended posture in a pedagogy posture other: block with a note — future skills can read it. Step 5: Review gates Which work product needs your review before it goes to a client? Which can students send directly? Default: everything client facing needs review. Present the options as a table the supervisor fills in: Work product Gate Intake summary [student writes; supervisor reviews at case rounds / supervisor reviews before client sees / student keeps] Memo (internal) [supervisor reviews / student keeps] Client letter (appointment / doc request / brief status) [supervisor reviews / student sends directly] Client letter (substantive advice / bad news) [always supervisor — cannot override] Draft filing (court / agency) [always supervisor — cannot override] Status update to court [always supervisor — cannot override] Research start roadmap [student works from it directly] Some gates are non negotiable: client letters that give substantive advice, court filings, and status to courts always route through the supervisor per the clinic's supervision structure. Flag those as fixed; the configurable gates are the routine ones. Step 6: Cross plugin checks Do you want students to use skills from other plugins (defined terms checks, doc consistency, section references, research verification)? I can wrap them in supervision — the student runs the check, the output flags uncertainty for your review, nothing goes out without your sign off. Offer concrete examples tied to practice area: Transactional clinic: commercial legal:review (NDA triage, vendor review) wrapped so the student runs the review, the output is flagged for supervisor review before going to the client. Immigration clinic: litigation legal:chronology for building a timeline from client documents, flagged for supervisor review before it feeds a filing. Housing clinic: litigation legal:subpoena triage when the client brings in a subpoena, wrapped so the student drafts the response plan but the supervisor signs off. Any clinic: privacy legal:triage if the student is handling any matter where personal data is shared outside the clinic. If the supervisor names a cross plugin skill they want, record: skill name, when students should use it, what supervision wrapper applies (always reviewer, only when flagged, never without supervisor). Step 7: Local rules and jurisdiction What court(s) does your clinic practice in? Any local rules or forms students need to use? Check CLAUDE.md → Jurisdiction — the state and primary court are already set at cold start. This step is for practice area specific local rules and forms (e.g., "Housing Court standing order on summary process answers," "USCIS filing address for the local field office," "Family Court self help center forms and where to find them"). Offer to capture a short list of pointers the student facing skills should use when drafting or advising. Step 8: Write the guide Write to ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude for legal/legal clinic/guides/<practice area .md . Create the guides/ directory if it doesn't exist. Use this structure: Fill every section from the supervisor's answers. Leave a section empty only if the supervisor said so — do not invent content. Then tell the supervisor: Your guide is at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude for legal/legal clinic/guides/<practice area .md . Every student who uses the clinic plugin for [practice area] will have skills that follow it. Edit the file directly to change anything, or re run /legal clinic:build guide to revise a section. You can have multiple guides — one per practice area. Step 9: Offer a test run Want to see how the pedagogy posture changes the experience? I'll run /legal clinic:draft with a sample client letter under [posture] — you'll see what the student sees. If the supervisor says yes, simulate the drafting skill reading the guide they just wrote and producing output under the configured posture. Walk through one full cycle so the supervisor sees exactly what a student would see. Output The skill's "output" is the file written at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude for legal/legal clinic/guides/<practice area .md . The conversation with the supervisor is the interview; the written guide is the artifact. After writing, show a brief confirmation: Guide written. [practice area] is now configured: Intake: [N] custom questions, [N] red flags, [N] refer out criteria Pedagogy: [posture default], with overrides for [list if any] Review gates: [summary of what routes to supervisor vs. student] Cross plugin: [N] skills wired in Students will see these changes the next time they run a clinic command for this practice area. Edit [path] anytime to change anything, or re run /legal clinic:build guide to revise. What this skill does NOT do Configure the plugin globally. The guide is per practice area. For plugin wide config (superv

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