Lawstu Customize

When to use

Reach for this when a lawstu skill's default behavior does not fit you — the Socratic drilling is too gentle, the feedback too terse, the citation style wrong, or you want answers scoped to a specific jurisdiction. The skill captures preferences the other lawstu skills read, so you tune once instead of restating every session.

Not for: the first-time intake of your courses and goals (see lawstu-cold-start-interview), or any change that would weaken the academic-integrity guardrail. This skill cannot be used to make another skill write graded work, supply exam answers, or ghostwrite — those settings are fixed and non-negotiable.

Method

1. Name the target. One skill or a global default. Decision point: if the same tweak applies everywhere (e.g., jurisdiction), set it globally.
2. Set intensity. Socratic pressure (gentle → relentless), and how long the skill waits before confirming your answer.
3. Set feedback depth. Terse flags vs. detailed coaching; rubric scores on/off.
4. Set jurisdiction and authority. Which state's law, majority vs. minority default, UCC vs. common law preference for contracts.
5. Set output format. Preferred brief/outline layout, citation style (Bluebook vs. ALWD), and terseness.
6. Confirm the guardrail is intact. The skill echoes back that integrity limits remain enforced, then writes the preference set.

Example

You find lawstu-socratic-drill too easy and lawstu-legal-writing feedback too thin. You set Socratic intensity to "relentless, no hints until three attempts" and writing feedback to "detailed, paragraph-level." Jurisdiction set to California. Next session both skills apply it automatically — and both still refuse to draft your graded memo.

Pitfalls

• Turning intensity so high you disengage; calibrate to productive struggle, not despair.
• Setting a jurisdiction you are not actually studying, skewing rule statements.
• Over-terse feedback that hides the why of a mistake.
• Expecting customization to unlock ghostwriting — it never will.

Output format

Scope: [skill name / global]
Socratic intensity: [gentle → relentless] | reveal delay
Feedback depth: [terse / detailed] | rubric: on/off
Jurisdiction: [state] | majority/minority default | UCC/common-law
Output: brief/outline layout | citation style | terseness
Guardrail: academic integrity ENFORCED (locked)

Reference

• Precedence: these preferences layer on top of the lawstu-cold-start-interview profile.
• IRAC / case-brief / CREAC layouts are selectable here but their structural integrity is preserved.
• Bluebook vs. ALWD citation defaults flow into lawstu-legal-writing.