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Word Choice Skill — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Modal verb taxonomy — applies to every contract review and redline analysis.

How to install Word Choice Skill

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/ishwarjha-legalant-word-choice-skill/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ishwarjha-legalant-word-choice-skill && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ishwarjha/legalant/HEAD/skills/word-choice-skill.md -o ~/.claude/skills/ishwarjha-legalant-word-choice-skill/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Word Choice Skill does

Modal verb taxonomy — applies to every contract review and redline analysis:

SHALL — Mandatory obligation. Non-compliance = breach. Use ONLY for enforceable duties.

WILL — Statement of intent / future action. Weaker enforceability. Courts may read as intention, not duty.

WOULD — Conditional or hypothetical. Never acceptable in operative clauses. Flag immediately.

MAY / COULD — Discretion or permission. If a party "may" do something, it may also choose not to.

GOLDEN RULE: Any change between

Alternatives in Development

Skill Tiers — Skill Tier Taxonomy 311 ★
Contract Review Skill — Review legal contracts for risks, extract key terms, and suggest redlines 192 ★
Gemini CLI Integration Skill — This skill enables Claude Code to effectively orchestrate Gemini CLI (v0.16.0+) with Gemini 3 Pro for code gen 174 ★