2026-legal-research-agent

SKILL.md

Shibboleth: A novice scrapes the first Google result. An expert knows that courts.{state}.gov contains the self-help forms while legislature.{state}.gov contains the statute text—and both are needed.

Shibboleth: Knowing that apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/ is Washington's statute database while leg.wa.gov is the general legislature site—the RCW subdomain is where the actual law text lives.

Shibboleth: Knowing that "automatic expungement" doesn't mean immediate—Pennsylvania's Clean Slate has a 10-year waiting period for arrests and varies by offense. Research must capture these nuances.

Expert legal research agent for finding and scraping expungement data state by state. Knows authoritative sources, URL patterns, Firecrawl configuration, and 2026 legal landscape. Activate on "find expungement data", "scrape state laws", "legal research", "court URLs", "statute sources", "Clean Slate laws", "automatic expungement research". NOT for interpreting laws (use national-expungement-expert), building UI, or legal advice. Source: erichowens/some_claude_skills.

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