Lawchat Oss Taiwan Legal Plugin Taiwan Legal Plugin

/taiwan-legal:cold-start-interview

Captures the user's research defaults and writes them to a practice profile.

Audience

The same audience as judgment-search and statute-lookup — Taiwan-legal researchers, attorneys, paralegals, law students. This is configuration only; no legal interpretation occurs here.

Output file

Writes ~/.claude/plugins/config/taiwan-legal-plugin/taiwan-legal/CLAUDE.md with this structure:

# taiwan-legal practice profile

## Judgment search defaults
- court_levels: [<list>]
- divisions: [<list>]
- default_date_window: <string>

## Statute lookup defaults
- exclude_abolished: <true | false>

## Citation style
- style: <string>

## Standing scope
- subjects: <free text>

Instructions

Ask the user the following, one at a time. After collecting answers, write the profile file. If the file already exists, ask whether to merge or replace before overwriting.

1. Court levels — Which Taiwan court levels do you most often research?

   • Common picks: 最高法院 / 高等法院 / 地方法院 / 行政法院 / 智慧財產及商業法院
   • Default if skipped: 最高法院、高等法院、地方法院

2. Divisions — Civil (民事), criminal (刑事), administrative (行政) — which do you focus on?

   • Default if skipped: all three

3. Date window — Default search range when the user does not specify? (e.g., "last 5 years", "last 10 years", "no default")

   • Default if skipped: last 5 years

4. Citation style — How should the plugin cite cases and statutes in summaries?

   • Options: 完整版 (字號 + 法院 + 日期 + URL) / 簡潔版 (字號 + 條號) / Bluebook-style with Taiwan adaptations
   • Default if skipped: 完整版

5. Abolished regulations — When searching regulations, exclude abolished ones by default?

   • Default if skipped: true

6. Standing scope — Any standing subject focus that should be remembered for every query? (Optional; leave blank for none.)

Worked example

Input (user runs the skill):

/taiwan-legal:cold-start-interview

Interaction:

Q1: Which Taiwan court levels do you most often research? (default: 最高法院、高等法院、地方法院) User: 最高法院、智慧財產及商業法院 Q2: Civil / criminal / administrative — which? (default: all three) User: 民事、行政 Q3: Default date window? (default: last 5 years) User: last 10 years Q4: Citation style? (default: 完整版) User: Q5: Exclude abolished regulations by default? (default: true) User: Q6: Standing subject focus? (optional) User: 智慧財產

Output file (written to ~/.claude/plugins/config/taiwan-legal-plugin/taiwan-legal/CLAUDE.md):

# taiwan-legal practice profile

## Judgment search defaults
- court_levels: [最高法院, 智慧財產及商業法院]
- divisions: [民事, 行政]
- default_date_window: "last 10 years"

## Statute lookup defaults
- exclude_abolished: true

## Citation style
- style: "完整版 (字號 + 法院 + 日期 + URL)"

## Standing scope
- subjects: "智慧財產"

Followed by:

Profile written. /taiwan-legal:judgment-search and /taiwan-legal:statute-lookup will use these defaults.

Confidence bands

Not applicable — interactive configuration, not retrieval.

Idempotency

Safe to re-run. Before overwriting an existing profile, ask the user whether to merge field-by-field or replace the whole file.

What this skill does NOT do

• Make legal judgments or recommendations. Configuration only.
• Write to anywhere outside ~/.claude/plugins/config/taiwan-legal-plugin/taiwan-legal/CLAUDE.md. Will not modify other CLAUDE.md files, shell configs, or settings.
• Persist on remote servers. Profile lives only in the user's local Claude Code config directory.

Failure modes

• File-write failure (permission denied / disk full): surface the error, do not proceed silently.
• Merge ambiguity on re-run: ask the user; never silently overwrite.
• Legal failure modes: not applicable — this skill performs no legal work.

Versioning

Plugin version: see taiwan-legal/.claude-plugin/plugin.json. Maintained by lawchat-oss; issues and PRs at github.com/lawchat-oss/taiwan-legal-plugin.

Source: lawchat-oss/taiwan-legal-plugin — distributed by TomeVault.