Free and open source
Practice Area Skills for Your AI
A skill is a niche practice area packaged for an AI agent like Claude Code or Codex. We bundle the statutes, the full text of the leading cases, and a doctrinal map that tells your AI when to use what. No Westlaw. No Lexis. No subscription. Install it once and your AI works the law instead of guessing at it.
Install in One Sentence
If you use an AI agent like Claude Code or Codex, paste this one line into it:
Install the ny-mca skill from https://github.com/DocketDrafter/docketdrafter-skills
To use a different skill, swap the name.
A Treatise Your AI Can Actually Read
A practice area skill is a small library you give to your AI. It contains the controlling statutes, the full opinions of the cases that matter, and short doctrinal write ups that walk through how the area actually works in practice. When you ask your AI a question, it reads the relevant sources before it answers.
The full primary sources
Every statute and every case opinion the skill relies on is included in full text. Nothing for your AI to look up or guess at.
A doctrinal map
Short topic write ups that tell your AI which sources govern which issues, the way a treatise chapter would.
Public source links
Every citation comes with a public link to the underlying opinion or statute, so you can verify what your AI relied on.
Available Skills
Each skill is a complete, self contained library for one practice area in one jurisdiction. More are on the way. If yours is not listed, see below.
New York
Merchant Cash Advance Defense
Loan vs. purchase recharacterization, criminal usury, CPLR 4518 business records challenges, default judgment and confession of judgment vacatur, and breach of contract defenses. Includes the full text of the controlling New York statutes and the leading appellate and trial court decisions.
- Attack a funder's motion for summary judgment
- Compute the effective APR on an MCA contract
- Issue spot a new matter against the three factor test
- Stress test a default vacatur motion
Your practice area
Built on Request
If you handle high volume work in a niche area, the same packaging works for you. FLSA collective actions, SSDI appeals, ERISA denials, a particular landlord and tenant practice, anything that has a defined body of statutes and recurring cases. Email me. Tell me what you do. If it is a fit I will build it.
tommy@docketdrafter.comWhy Bundling the Law Matters
The most common ways AI goes wrong in legal work all come from the same root cause. The model is working from memory rather than from the actual text of the law.
Fabricated and miscited cases
When the only authority in front of your AI is a bounded set of real, attorney vetted cases with the correct citations already attached, the surface area for invented or miscited authority drops dramatically. You can also check the work, because every case is sitting right there.
Misapplied holdings and bad quotes
The full opinion is included with the skill, not pulled from memory. The AI can work from the actual text of the case when it summarizes a holding or pulls a quote, instead of reconstructing what it thinks the case said.
No subscription required
There is nothing to connect to Westlaw or Lexis. The skill is self contained. You install it once and it works.
What You Actually Do With a Skill
Once the skill is installed, you ask your AI questions the way you already do. The skill quietly pulls the right sources behind the scenes.
Attack opposing papers
Hand your AI the motion and the exhibits. Ask it to find every weakness in the moving party's proof. It works from the controlling cases, not from a guess at the law.
Stress test your own arguments
Paste in your draft. Ask the AI to take the other side and tell you where the strongest pushback comes from, with the cases that support it.
Run the math on a contract
For something like usury, the skill walks the AI through the right way to compute the effective rate, so the number comes back the way a court would compute it.
Issue spot a new matter
Give the AI the new file. Ask what defenses are on the table. Because the doctrinal map lives in the skill, the answer reflects the way the practice area actually works.
Are you a defense attorney who works in a high volume niche and want to build a skill for your practice? Reach out to me.
tommy@docketdrafter.com
Tommy Eberle, DocketDrafter Co-Founder and CEO