legal-verified-research-memo

Research

Generate a legal research memo with claim-level source verification, confidence flags, and primary-authority priority.

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Legal Verified Research Memo

Purpose

Generate a legal research memo with claim-level source verification, confidence flags, and primary-authority priority.

Routing

Use when: Use for legal/regulatory research memos where citation reliability is critical.
Do not use when: Do not use for contract redline workflows that are primarily document-editing tasks.
Outputs: Structured memo with verified citations, confidence flags, and practical recommendations.
Success criteria: Every key claim is linked to a fetched source or clearly labeled uncertain.

Trigger Examples

Positive

Use the legal-verified-research-memo skill for this request.
Help me with legal verified research memo.
Use for legal/regulatory research memos where citation reliability is critical.
Legal Verified Research Memo: provide an actionable result.

Negative

Do not use for contract redline workflows that are primarily document-editing tasks.
Do not use legal-verified-research-memo for unrelated requests.
This request is outside legal verified research memo scope.
This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
question	string	Yes	Legal question to research
jurisdictions	string	No	Jurisdiction scope
output_report_path	string	No	Where to write the research memo

Runtime Prompt

Current runtime prompt length: 1212 characters.
Runtime prompt is defined directly in ../legal-verified-research-memo.json.