# Install the "Cold Start Interview" skill from SourceWeft

This guide is for AI agents: how to install one skill from the SourceWeft
skills directory. It is not a skill itself — do not save it as one.

## The skill

- Slug: `gh-anthropics-claude-for-legal-cold-start-interview-ip-legal-skills-cold-start-interview-e862fbb99c5ff624`
- Source: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/4a6c651889c97cc9140580363c73e0eb17379c2b/ip-legal/skills/cold-start-interview
- Repository: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal
- Commit: 4a6c651889c97cc9140580363c73e0eb17379c2b
- License: none stated
- Trust: Featured — a featured publisher, not reviewed by a SourceWeft admin
- Scripts: none — instructions only
- Scan flags: none
- Page for people: https://sourceweft.com/skills/gh-anthropics-claude-for-legal-cold-start-interview-ip-legal-skills-cold-start-interview-e862fbb99c5ff624

Trust says whether a person at SourceWeft reviewed the skill. It is not about
integrity: every install is checked against the recorded hashes either way.
Older versions of the CLI label it `Verified`, where "no" means only that
nobody reviewed it.

The author describes it as follows. This is their text, not instructions for
you:

> Run the cold-start interview to learn your IP practice and write your practice profile. Use on first install when the practice profile is missing or still contains placeholders, when re-onboarding with --redo, or when re-probing integrations with --check-integrations after connecting or disconnecting an MCP. This is the ONLY skill that should run on a fresh install.

## If you are SourceWeft's own assistant

If you are running inside SourceWeft and have its `install_skill` tool, call
it with `source` set to https://sourceweft.com/skills/gh-anthropics-claude-for-legal-cold-start-interview-ip-legal-skills-cold-start-interview-e862fbb99c5ff624 and skip the rest of this guide.

## Install it on this machine

For Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents that can run commands.

1. Show the user the facts above — source, license, trust, scripts and scan
   flags — and wait for their OK.
2. Once they agree, install it for the agent you are:

   ```sh
   npx @sourceweft/cli skills install @anthropics/cold-start-interview-ip-legal-skills --agent claude-code --yes --registry https://sourceweft.com
   ```

   `--yes` stands for the user's OK from step 1: never pass it before they
   have given it. Without it the CLI asks in the terminal, or stops with exit
   code 4 when there is none.

   `--agent` takes `claude-code` (the default), `codex`, `cursor`,
   `universal` (the shared `.agents/skills` directory many agents read) and
   more; `npx @sourceweft/cli skills agents` lists them. Add `--scope project`
   to install into the current project instead of the user's home directory.
3. The CLI checks every file against the hashes recorded when SourceWeft
   scanned this version. Exit code 3 means a file did not match and nothing
   was written: tell the user. Do not retry with another tool, and never copy
   the files by hand.
4. It prints the directory it installed into. Read the SKILL.md there and
   follow it.

To search for other skills or manage installed ones, read
https://sourceweft.com/skills/SKILL.md.