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Legalise — DevOps skill for Claude Code

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Open-source governance infrastructure for AI-assisted legal work.

How to install Legalise

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open b1rdmania/legalise and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Legalise does

Open-source governance infrastructure for AI-assisted legal work.

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README

Legalise

⚠️ **Evaluation release — a reference implementation, not production software. Not for live client matters.** See [`docs/LIMITATIONS.md`](./docs/LIMITATIONS.md) for what is and isn't ready.

Open-source governance infrastructure for AI-assisted legal work. Legalise is a self-hosted workspace and reference implementation: matter policy gates model and skill calls, AI output remains a draft until named human sign-off, and actions and refusals enter a database-enforced hash chain. Exports carry the record and an offline verifier.

How it works

The loop is **draft, cite, sign-off, audit**. AI prepares an output inside a matter and cites the documents used. A named person reviews it and records a decision. The decision pins the reviewed output by hash.

flowchart LR
    A[Documents
in the matter] --> B[AI drafts
+ cites sources]
    B --> C[Named person
reviews]
    C --> D[Sign-off
pins output by hash]
    A -.-> R[(Append-only
hash-chained record)]
    B -.-> R
    C -.-> R
    D -.-> R

Matter actions handled by Legalise write to an append-only, hash-chained audit log. The log is tamper-evident, not tamper-proof. See [`docs/TRUST.md`](./docs/TRUST.md) for the claim boundary and open gaps.

Every exported matter pack includes `audit_chain.json` and a standalone, standard-library verifier. A recipient needs only Python 3—no Legalise install, network, or database:

unzip matter-export.zip -d matter-export
cd matter-export
python3 verify_chain.py

The verifier exits non-zero if an entry was edited, removed, or reordered. Its [source](./backend/app/core/export_chain_verifier.py) and [export round-trip tests](./backend/tests/test_export_audit_chain.py) are in the repository.