UK Legal SkillsThe Counsel

A junior counsel in your pocket. Thirty-eight legal skills, twelve agents, and the entirety of England & Wales statute — assembled into a single quiet assistant for the work of reading, drafting and risking contracts.

Read any contract

Drop in a PDF, DOCX or scanned page. The Counsel returns a marked-up version with commentary, risk flags and the precise statute it relies upon. Five agents review in parallel and aggregate to a single Contract Safety Score.

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Draft from facts

Tell it the parties, the consideration and the term. Receive a clean NDA, employment contract, terms of service or board pack — citing English law, not Delaware. Six drafting skills covering the documents most contracts of England & Wales rely on.

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Reason like a panel

Twelve agents — junior counsel, senior counsel, devil's advocate, costs draftsman — debate before a single conclusion is reached. Three orchestrators (review, employment, corporate) aggregate weighted scores into one verdict.

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Live UK statute and caselaw

Wired to legislation.gov.uk and the National Archives Lex Graph (63,000+ judgments). In-force, commencement and amendment checks happen on every analysis, so the law you see is the law in force this morning.

Reads like an editorial broadsheet

Reports are written the way solicitors read — masthead, marginalia, drop-caps and Roman-numeral cells, with risk flags and the precise statute in the margin — because reading carefully is half the job.

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Open source under MIT

Use it commercially. The skills run inside your own agent host with your own provider key, so your contract text stays on your machine and never touches a third-party server. The entire codebase is open and documented.

The principle

In the matter of any contract before you, the question is rarely what does the document say. It is what the document does — to your money, your obligations, and the next twenty years of your professional life.

Specialist before general. Fact before form. The Counsel is built around how solicitors actually reason — not how chatbots usually answer.

Who the Counsel is for

Freelancers & contractors — Check your contracts for IR35 traps, unfair payment terms, and missing protections before you sign. Understand what that 20-page consultancy agreement actually says, in plain English.

Small business owners — Review supplier contracts without a solicitor on retainer. Generate NDAs for new partnerships. Audit your website's UK GDPR compliance. Get a second opinion on that lease renewal in seconds.

Property professionals — Analyse commercial leases clause by clause. Check tenancy agreements against the Renters' Rights Act 2025. Spot missing break clauses, unfair deposit terms, and repair obligations before they become problems.

In-house legal teams — Use the Counsel as a first-pass review tool so your solicitors can focus on the issues that actually matter, not reading boilerplate. Triage a stack of contracts in minutes; export an A4 PDF report for the file.

Developers & legal tech — Extend the platform with new legal skills, build on the API, contribute analysis domains, or integrate the MCP legislation server into your own applications. The entire codebase is open and documented.

Install and run

If you already use Claude Code, Codex, or another compatible agent host, install the legal skills and run them directly from your terminal. Review contracts, generate documents, and run compliance checks without leaving your workflow.

bash

# Clone and install the skills, agents and MCP servers into your agent host
git clone https://github.com/davendra/uk-legal-skills.git
cd uk-legal-skills
./install.sh

# Then in your agent host
/legal review my-contract.pdf

Or install in one line straight from the repo:

bash

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davendra/uk-legal-skills/main/install.sh | bash

install.sh copies the 38 skills, 12 agents, and the MCP legislation and caselaw servers into your agent host. See the getting-started guide for the full walkthrough.

Prefer a hosted web app?

The Counsel (the-counsel.co.uk) is a hosted product built on these skills — sign in and start with no installation. This repository is the open-source skills, agents and MCP servers only.

England & Wales only

All analysis is scoped to the laws of England & Wales. Scottish, Northern Irish, and other jurisdictions are not covered.

UK Legal Skills — Established MMXXVI · Built for England & Wales · MIT