# CourtListener agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

> Ready-made CourtListener playbooks for AI agents: check the citations in a brief, research case law on a legal question with CourtListener and AI. Free SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or one click in RevampKey.

## Skills

- [Use CourtListener with AI, safely](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/courtlistener/skills/essentials.md): Learn how to connect CourtListener to your AI assistant, choose the right search tool, page through legal results without overload, and get approval before any alert or subscription changes.
- [Check the citations in a brief](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/courtlistener/skills/citation-check-brief.md): Extracts every citation from a brief or memo and sorts each one into verified, flagged, unresolved or needs a human read before filing. It does not change the document or your account.
- [Research case law on a legal question with CourtListener and AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/courtlistener/skills/legal-case-law-research.md): Starts from your legal question, searches U.S. opinions by court, date and jurisdiction, reads the strongest cases and reports what courts actually held. It asks before creating any alert or subscription.

## Install

- RevampKey: connect CourtListener at https://revampkey.com/marketplace/courtlistener; the skills come with it.
- Any Agent Skills tool, into the current project:

```bash
for s in essentials citation-check-brief legal-case-law-research; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/courtlistener-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/courtlistener/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done
```

### What is a CourtListener agent skill?

A SKILL.md file: a short playbook an AI agent loads when your request matches it. Each CourtListener skill describes one job, which CourtListener tools to use in which order, what to check first and when to stop and ask you.

### Do the CourtListener skills change anything on their own?

3 of the 3 only read. The others tell the agent to show you the change and wait for a yes before it creates, edits or deletes anything in CourtListener.

### Which tools can use these skills?

Any agent that reads the open Agent Skills format: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code with Copilot and RevampKey. In RevampKey they are attached when you connect CourtListener; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

### Do I need the CourtListener MCP server too?

Yes. The skills tell the agent how to do the work; the CourtListener MCP server gives it the tools to do it. The CourtListener MCP setup guide covers every client.

MCP setup guide: https://revampkey.com/marketplace/courtlistener.md