# Paxton Legal Research agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

> Ready-made Paxton Legal Research playbooks for AI agents: check whether a case is still good law with Paxton Legal Research, verify a legal authority with Paxton Legal Research. Free SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or one click in RevampKey.

## Skills

- [Use Paxton Legal Research with AI, safely and well](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/paxton-legal-research/skills/essentials.md): Sets Claude up to search Paxton's statutes, case law, administrative decisions and citation history with the right account, jurisdiction and scope. It asks before any step that would change your account, and it stays read-only.
- [Check whether a case is still good law with Paxton Legal Research](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/paxton-legal-research/skills/citation-history-check.md): Looks up an authority's citing and cited relationships and available treatment information, so you can see whether it has been overruled, distinguished or followed. It reports what the history shows and what it does not establish, and it never changes any record.
- [Verify a legal authority with Paxton Legal Research](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/paxton-legal-research/skills/research-authority-verification.md): Confirms that a named case, statute or agency decision exists with the right identifier, reads its source text, and separates the holding from argument and quotation before reporting. It does not check whether the authority is still good law.

## Install

- RevampKey: connect Paxton Legal Research at https://revampkey.com/marketplace/paxton-legal-research; the skills come with it.
- Any Agent Skills tool, into the current project:

```bash
for s in essentials citation-history-check research-authority-verification; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/paxton-legal-research-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/paxton-legal-research/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done
```

### What is a Paxton Legal Research agent skill?

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

### Do the Paxton Legal Research 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 Paxton Legal Research.

### 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 Paxton Legal Research; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

### Do I need the Paxton Legal Research MCP server too?

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

MCP setup guide: https://revampkey.com/marketplace/paxton-legal-research.md